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German-Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1820-1914

"Avraham Barkai's important study traces the trajectory of this mass immigration to America and assesses its impact upon the individual immigrant, the American Jewish community, and the Jewish community in Germany."

"Barkai's expertise as a historian of German Jewry is unmistakable .... Characterizing 19th-century American Jewry as a branch of German Jewry, the amply demonstrates the continuities in sociocultural and occupational development that persisted generations after migration."
—Choice

"Barkai's meticulous collection and interpretation of statistical evidence, worked into the study in an elegant and unobtrusive way, enables him to challenge a number of accepted notions regarding the immigrants' social and economic condition."
—American Jewish History