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My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

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In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America. Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the ...more
Paperback , 329 pages
Published April 1st 2008 by New York University Press (first published December 1st 2005)
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