The reasons behind each wave of Jewish migration, how they became a "model minority", and a lot more can be found here.
From The Peopling of NYC
Contents |
Ethnic Enclave: History, Neighborhood, and (Self)Help
Waves: The History of Immigration and Incorporation (Nation, City, and Enclave)
In and Out of the Ghetto: Housing conditions, Tenements, Ethnic Succession, & the Ethnic Enclave
Arrival in the Big Apple: Lower East Side, N.Y.
Lower East Side Housing Conditions
Suburbanization: Americanization with a hint of Jew
Jewish Migration & Social Bonding
Religion: Tradition Transformed (American forms of Jewish Life)
The "New Role" of the Synagogue
On Our Own Terms: Assimilation and Culture
Inside Voices: Our struggle in Our Own Words
In-depth Interview with Polish Immigrant: Lawrence Meinwald
The Melting Process: Education
Slowly but Surely: The Success Formula
Jewish Women in the United States
Outside Voices: Praise and Criticism of our Accomplishments and Suitability as Americans
Rise and Fall of the Jews-Blacks Alliance
The Generation Gap: Jewish Immigrants and Jewish-Americans
A Brighter Tomorrow (Lawrence Meinwald)
The (Myth of the) Model Minority
Entrepreneurship: Business owners, Education, Professionalization
Politics: From Socialism to Zionism, and Beyond
American Dreaming: Pogroms, Refugees, Special Status, Aid and Outreach
Government Ignorance with Regard to the “Final Solution”
The Jewish Reaction to World War II
The Hidden World of the Working Class: Labor, Work, Employment
Sources
Sorin, Gerald. Tradition Transformed The Jewish Experience in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Waters, Mary C., and Reed Ueda, eds. The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Library, 2007.
Meinwald, Lawrence. "Interview with Ellis Island Oral History Collection." Lawrence Meinwald. 26 Apr. 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNiHjsL2NWI&mode=related&search
The Jewish Museum. "Getting Comfortable in New York The American Jewish Home 1880-1950." New York: Library of Congress, 1990.
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. 26 Apr. 2007 <http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html>.
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