"A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately "unmeltable" ethics.' 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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"A critically important step in furthering the discussion of [how] . . . race has interacted with immigrant adjustment and national construction." -- George Sanchez, Journal of American Ethnic History
"A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately "unmeltable" ethics'." -- Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"This is one of the most significant studies of immigrant life in a many a year." -- J. D. Sarna, from CHOICE
"A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately "unmeltable" ethics'." -- Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"This is one of the most significant studies of immigrant life in a many a year." -- J. D. Sarna, from CHOICE
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"Jacobson's book impressively lives up to its stark and splendid title, which is borrowed from Polish-Jewish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's capsule description of the bonds uniting people into nations. For the immigrants whom Jacobson considers, nationalist sorrows seemed especially tragic, as they were felt and resisted in exile from the nations whose causes were being championed. Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and, as expertly, details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States."--David Roediger, from the Foreword
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This review is from: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Hardcover)
Jacobson's book is at once a painstaking review of original texts and a highly compelling read, no matter how long ago your family arrived. A must read for professional historians and anyone interested in American Studies and Cultural History
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This review is from: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Paperback)
This book focuses on the immigration period around the turn of the last century. The first few chapters on how life in USA chronnicled the emigrants' views; that is, the reasons for emigration and the hope the US policy would support their dreams of creating (Jews) or reclaiming (Irish an Poles) a homeland. This part was somewhat tedious reading because it was too repetitive. The later chapters on the emigrants' reaction to the conflict in Cuba and the Phillipines were fascintating. It revealed the beginnings of empire building and sounded like current mideast policy.
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This review is from: Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Hardcover)
This marvelous and insightful immigration history represents cultural history at its finest, with brilliant thoughts on the broader issues of homeland, citizenship and national identity alongside detailed investigations of Polish, Irish, and Eastern European settlers. If only this book was published in paperback, so it would be more accessible in the classroom!
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immigrant popular culture, immigrant discussion, vernacular theater, immigrant nationalism, nationalist discussion, diasporic nationalism, fourth partition, immigrant press, diasporic imagination, benevolent assimilation, immigrant journals, nationalist culture, rebel girl, symbolic ethnicity, nationalist themes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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United States, Old World, New York, New World, Irish World, Home Rule, James Jeffrey Roche, Patrick Ford, Robert Emmet, John Boyle O'Reilly, Polish National Alliance, Catholic Citizen, Patrick's Day, Dziennik Chicagoski, Kosciuszko Guard, Kuryer Polski, Michael Davitt, Abraham Cahan, Adam Mickiewicz, North America, Finley Peter Dunne, Jacob Gordin, Leon Kobrin, Morris Rosenfeld, Wolfe Tone New!
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- Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson on 5 pages
- Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) by Orm Overland in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 by Matthew Frye Jacobson in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Exile Mission: Polish Political Diaspora & (Polish and Polish American Studies) by Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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