Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States 1820-1914 by Avraham Barkai non-media and complex humanity of midcentury

and complex humanity of midcentury New York City

in an effort to better understand the region as a place where different ethnic communities - Poles

In vivid colour reproductions of Bergner’s paintings and in his writing

Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century

Directed by Maurice Schwartz

Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States 1820-1914 by Avraham Barkai non-media and complex humanity of midcenturyThe many thousands of Jews from German speaking lands who came to the United States throughout the nineteenth century played a major part in laying the foundations of the Jewish community in America. The author considers these immigrants a branch of German Jewry, compelled to seek overseas the political and civil rights denied them at home. In this volume of the Ellis Island Series, the fascinating story of this mass immigration of mostly poor,