The Promised City

Author : Moses Rischin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674715011
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promised City written by Moses Rischin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.

Author : Moses Rischin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promised City written by Moses Rischin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger David Waldinger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674000728
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still the Promised City? written by Roger David Waldinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waldinger examines why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Using New York to look at the relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility, Waldinger offers a new understanding of a serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it.

Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202494
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competition in the Promised Land written by Leah Platt Boustan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.

Author : Roger David Waldinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still the Promised City? written by Roger David Waldinger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 030738618X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promised Land written by Jay Parini and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche. Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. An immensely readable and vibrant work of cultural history, Promised Land exposes the rich literary foundation of our culture, and is sure to appeal to all book lovers and students of the American character alike.

Author : Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814717314
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of promises : a history of the jews of New York written by Deborah Dash Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world.

Author : Annie Polland
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814767702
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Metropolis written by Annie Polland and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of the three part series, Deborah Dash Moore, general editor.

Author : Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.F7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Northern and Central Italy written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beverly Swerling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136963
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Promise written by Beverly Swerling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Civil War, as Manhattan experiences a surge in prosperity, Joshua Turner aspires to become a real-estate titan while Mollie Brannigan, raised by her aunt in a bordello, sees her life change after a chance encounter with Joshua in Macy's.