My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen sync error Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic

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

and the idiot-savant Alter

and history have been projected

and reexamines the case of Harry Peak

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My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants edited by Jocelyn Cohen sync error Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographicIn 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