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Words of the Uprooted

Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America

By: Robert A. Rockaway

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Words of the Uprooted

Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America

By: Robert A. Rockaway

American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed to help refugees from persecution in the Pale of Russia find jobs and community support and, secondarily, to reduce the Manhattan ghettoes and minimize antisemitism. In twenty-one years, the IRO distributed seventy-nine thousand East European Jews to over fifteen hundred cities and towns, including Chino, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Pensacola, Florida. Wherever they went, these twice-displaced immigrants wrote letters to the IRO's main office. Robert A. Rockaway has selected, and translated from Yiddish, letters that describe the immigrants' new surroundings, work conditions, and living situations, as well as letters that give voice to typical tensions between the immigrants and their benefactors. Rockaway introduces the letters with an essay on conditions in the Pale and on early American Jewish attempts to assist emigrants.

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246

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Cornell University Press

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ISBN 10

1501724630

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9781501724633

The Forerunners

Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

By: Robert P. Swierenga

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The Forerunners

Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora

By: Robert P. Swierenga

He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.

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488

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Wayne State University Press

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081434416X

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9780814344163

The Peacemakers

Arms and Adventure in the American West

By: Robert L Wilson

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The Peacemakers

Arms and Adventure in the American West

By: Robert L Wilson

Beginning with Native American primitive weaponry, The Peacemakers presents a comprehensive panorama from Lewis and Clark and their historic expedition, through subsequent trailblazing explorers, traders and mountain men, to the Army, the gold and silver miners, gunfighters, gamblers, outlaws, frontier madams and their soiled doves, to peace officers, cowboys and ranchers, as well as sodbusters, shopkeepers and the agents of Wells Fargo, hunters and gentlemen-sportsmen, Wild West showmen and women, to the Western stars of stage, screen, radio, and television. A final chapter provides insights and revelations on collecting arms and related treasures of the frontier. Designed as a companion volume to the bestselling Winchester: An American Legend and Colt: An American Legend, The Peacemakers matches those award-winning books with a fresh and breathtaking look at the extraordinary variety of Western arms. In stark contrast to the primitive Native American weapons of the time, the mechanical marvels of the time changed the course of history. These weapons were created by Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin, Sharps, Henry Deringer, Hawken, the U.S. armories and subcontractors, and small-shop private gunmakers. This book also includes other weapons of the era, like the ubiquitous Bowie knife, and more-many elegantly embellished knives including some by Tiffany & Co. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1362

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Simon and Schuster

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1510709258

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9781510709256

When the Tea Party Came to Town

Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

By: Robert Draper

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When the Tea Party Came to Town

Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

By: Robert Draper

Provides a close examination of the final two years of the Bush Presidency in a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives, elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.

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340

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Simon and Schuster

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1451642091

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9781451642094

The Santa Fe Trail

By: Robert Luther Duffus

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The Santa Fe Trail

By: Robert Luther Duffus

The lively history of this great trade artery is once more available.

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300

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UNM Press

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0826302351

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9780826302359

State of Grace

A Memoir of Twilight Time

By: Robert Timberg

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State of Grace

A Memoir of Twilight Time

By: Robert Timberg

In his long-awaited follow-up to "The Nightingale's Song," Timberg revives the powerful themes of courage, manhood, and loss in this in this autobiographical tale in which he rediscovers an earlier time (between the Good War and Vietnam) and an America now largely lost.

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435

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Simon and Schuster

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0684855615

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9780684855615

Modern American Counter Writing

Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

By: A. Robert Lee

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Modern American Counter Writing

Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

By: A. Robert Lee

The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyses three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons.

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681

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Routledge

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113516164X

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9781135161644

Stormwater Effects Handbook

A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers

By: G. Allen Burton Jr.,Robert Pitt

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Stormwater Effects Handbook

A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers

By: G. Allen Burton Jr.,Robert Pitt

A stand-alone working document, Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers assists scientists and regulators in determining when stormwater runoff causes adverse effects in receiving waters. This complicated task requires an integrated assessment approach that focuses on sampling before, during, and aft

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CRC Press

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1420036246

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9781420036244

Book's by Robert A. Rockaway

Words of the Uprooted

Words of the Uprooted

The Forerunners

The Forerunners

The Peacemakers

The Peacemakers

When the Tea Party Came to Town

When the Tea Party Came to Town

The Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail

State of Grace

State of Grace

Modern American Counter Writing

Modern American Counter Writing

Stormwater Effects Handbook

Stormwater Effects Handbook

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