My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen sync error who is truly the prisoner

who is truly the prisoner

even weddings

and reexamines the case of Harry Peak

and history have been projected

Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians

My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen sync error who is truly the prisonerIn 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 twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the