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KUGELMASS, JACK; JEFFREY SHANDLER (CURATORS) - Going Home : How American Jews Invent the Old World : Exhibited at Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, June 13, 1989-February 16 1990

Title: Going Home : How American Jews Invent the Old World : Exhibited at Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, June 13, 1989-February 16 1990
Description: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1989. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0914512439. Stapled wraps. 22 pages. Light creases, back cover has light mark in one area. English and Yiddish text. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Traces the "history of immigrant Jews back to Eastern Europe and explores the images of the Old World. Part I -- 1881 to World War I; Landslayt; American Yiddish Culture. Part II: The Interwar Years, Organized Relief, Private Pilgrimages, Tourism, The Old World as Exotic, After the Second World War, etc. Good .

Keywords: 0914512439 Jewish History Judaism How Americans Invent the Old World Yivo Institute American Yiddish Culture History of Immigrant Jews Back to Eastern Europe Laddslayt

Price: US$ 9.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 23476

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