The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America

By Joseph Telushkin and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

Book Overview

The Golden Landis a museum-in-a-book that devotes a double-page spread--complete with removable letters, documents, and personal effects--to each of the successive waves of Jewish immigration to America, from the Germans and Eastern Europeans in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s to the Soviet Jews in the 1970s and '80s.America was the first nation where Jews were regarded as citizens from the very beginning, andThe Golden Landreveals how they converted opportunity to success in fields from commerce, medicine, and science to movies, music, and literature. The book includes facsimiles of George Washington's letter to a community of Jews in Rhode Island, Emma Lazarus's poem that was later inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, Irving Berlin's handwritten lyrics for "God Bless America," a quiz challenging readers to guess the original names of American-Jewish show-business celebrities, and plenty of other materials to give readers a real feel for how America changed the Jews and how the Jews changed America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609609041
• ISBN13: 9780609609040
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A Museum-Like Experience

Joseph Telushkin is an ecumenically minded progressive sort of Orthodox rabbi, probably best known for his giant book on Jewish Literacy. This book is just 32 over-sized pages, but is PACKED with amazing photos, removable reproductions of fliers and ship passage tickets, various artifacts, etc. He gives a museum-like experience to the reader. You get as good of a taste of the turn of the century Jewish immigrant experience as any such book could offer. Wonderful book.

Good Book!

This book is very good for educating students about American Immigrants and American Jewish immigrants.