World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America & the Life They Found & Made Book

Two million East European Jews came to America during the great migration. Beginning in the 1880s they settled in the large cities and especially on the Lower East Side of New York. This is the story of how they tried to keep their Yiddish culture while making their way in the new society.

Here is every aspect of Jewish life - the old country village, the Atlantic crossing in steerage, the teeming life of the East Side, the Yiddish press and theatre, the settlement houses, the garment trades socialists groups, the synagogue, the Hebrew school and the sweat shops.