Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States 1820-1914 by Avraham Barkai non-media Directed by Maurice Schwartz

Directed by Maurice Schwartz

and complex humanity of midcentury New York City

Liz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz are on a mission to reclaim and revolutionize Ashkenazi cuisine

pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884–1950)

In vivid colour reproductions of Bergner’s paintings and in his writing

Branching Out: German-Jewish Immigration to the United States 1820-1914 by Avraham Barkai non-media Directed by Maurice SchwartzThe many thousands of Jews from German speaking lands who came to the United States throughout the nineteenth century played a major part in laying the foundations of the Jewish community in America. The author considers these immigrants a branch of German Jewry, compelled to seek overseas the political and civil rights denied them at home. In this volume of the Ellis Island Series, the fascinating story of this mass immigration of mostly poor,