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To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America
By (Author) Steven Cassedy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.8924073
Hardback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
To the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s--the era of "mass immigration." This pioneer group of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom were raised in Orthodox homes, abandoned their Jewish identity, absorbed the
"Cassedy breaks new ground in this comprehensive study of Russian Jewish intellectual emigres to America from 1880 to 1920. With clear-eyed wisdom, To the Other Shore explores a host of topics, from the influence of nineteenth-century Russian literary criticism to the turn-of-the-century Yiddish press, from Abe Cahan's working-class fiction to Adella Kean Zametkin's daily columns in Der Tog."--Jewish Book World