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Author Glazier, Jack.

Title Dispersing the ghetto : the relocation of Jewish immigrants across America / Jack Glazier
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Jewish immigrant distribution -- Confronting immigration restriction -- Internal debates -- The IRO at the local level -- Conclusion
Summary In the early 20th century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tenements, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment, provoked the hostile attention of immigration restrictionists, many of whom disdained Jews, racial minorities, and foreigners as inferior. Accordingly, they aimed to stifle the growth of dense ethnic settlements by curtailing immigration. Dispersing the Ghetto is the first book to describe in detail an important but little-known chapter in American immigration history, t
Notes Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-237) and index
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Subject Industrial Removal Office (U.S.)
SUBJECT Industrial Removal Office (U.S.) fast
Subject Jews, East European -- United States -- History
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Migrations
Jews -- United States -- Charities
HISTORY -- General.
Emigration and immigration
Jews -- Charities
Jews, East European
Jews -- Migrations
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
Subject Eastern Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609170370
1609170377