Dispersing the Ghetto

by Jack Glazier

Book Overview

In the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The teeming settlement, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked the attention of immigration restrictionists. Established American Jews--arrivals from the German states only a generation before--feared that their security might be threatened by the newcomers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801435226
• ISBN13: 9780801435225
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher