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10%OFFMatthew Frye Jacobson - Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States - 9780674831858 - V9780674831858
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Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

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Description for Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States “became American,” by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye Jacobson reveals tenacious attachments to the Old World and explores the significance of homeland politics for Irish, Polish, and Jewish immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

Drawing on Yiddish, Polish, and English-language sources, Jacobson discovers the influence of nationalist ideologies in the overt political agendas of such ethnic associations as the Knights of Zion and the Polish Falcons, as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674831858
SKU
V9780674831858
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About Matthew Frye Jacobson
Matthew Frye Jacobson is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University.

Reviews for Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls ‘America’s largely assimilated but ultimately unmeltable ethnics.’ It’s a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the ‘huddled masses’ of the world look with longing.
Jonathan Kirsch
Los Angeles Times
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