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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jewish immigration"”.
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
<p>I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in …
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The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960
… However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South Africa. This dissertation attempts to answer the question as to why of all Eastern Europe's diasporas, Yiddish theatre at no stage put down …
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Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory
… was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly due to the …
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Nearly the new world: refugees and the British west Indies, 1933-1945
… as a place of refuge, internment and transit for Jewish refugees from Europe during the interwar and Second World War period. It approaches the subject from the different perspectives of the British Government, West Indian colonies, refugee organisations and refugees themselves. It is divided into …
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The tenement house as a building form in relation to the large-scale urban development of Warsaw 1864-1919
… in the wake of tsarist social reforms from 1861,Jewish immigration from the Empire's interior, economicintegration and the city's expansion as a trading andbanking centre between Russia and the West). Spatialgrowth has been interpreted as resulting primarily fromprivate property speculation, …
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“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature
… share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar trajectories, each author answers the still relevant question of how immigrants might successfully …