The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America

by Joseph Telushkin and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

Book Overview

The Golden Landis a museum-in-a-book that devotes a double-page spread--complete with removable letters, documents, and personal effects--to each of the successive waves of Jewish immigration to America, from the Germans and Eastern Europeans in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s to the Soviet Jews in the 1970s and '80s.America was the first nation where Jews were regarded as citizens from the very...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609609041
• ISBN13: 9780609609040
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A Museum-Like Experience

Joseph Telushkin is an ecumenically minded progressive sort of Orthodox rabbi, probably best known for his giant book on Jewish Literacy. This book is just 32 over-sized pages, but is PACKED with amazing photos, removable reproductions of fliers and ship passage tickets, various artifacts, etc. He gives a museum-like experience to the reader. You get as good of a taste of the turn of the century Jewish immigrant experience as any such book could offer. Wonderful book.

Good Book!

This book is very good for educating students about American Immigrants and American Jewish immigrants.