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<br> As long ago as September 1654, 23 Jews disembarked from a ship named the <em>Sainte Catherine</em> into New Amsterdam--today's New York City. They came to find a safe haven from oppression and religious persecution and to seek economic opportunity. But even they were not the first Jewish Americans, and they were certainly not the last. Three million Jewish immigrants followed in the next three centuries. Today, about 4 out of every 10 Jews in the world are U. S. citizens.<br> <em>The Jewish American Family Album</em> tells personal stories of Jewish immigrants from their arrival in this country (as early as 1579) to the present day. Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have found letters, diaries, and newspaper articles that describe what life was like in the old countries and tell of the difficulties encountered in leaving home for a new life in America. They have combed through family archives and scrapbooks to find personal accounts that make history as immediate and exciting as stories told generation after generation in any family.<br> In their own words, we learn what life was like for these millions of Jewish immigrants. We read of the earliest of the Jewish Americans, some of

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Author

Hoobler, Dorothy;Hoobler, Thomas;Patinkin, Mandy

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195124255

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities