Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States First Edition, With a New Foreword by David Roediger

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ISBN-13: 978-0520233423
ISBN-10: 0520233425
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"Jacobson's pathbreaking and provocative book focuses on the continuing Old World attachments of America's Irish, Polish, and East European Jewish immigrants. Using an impressive array of foreign-language sources, Jacobson demonstrates that nationalist images rooted in the Old World suffused both popular and literary immigrant culture. . . . 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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition, With a New Foreword by David Roediger (May 21, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520233425
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520233423
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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