Going to America, Going to School

umberg /f Stephan /i F.

In 1914, more than one and one-half million Eastern European Jews emigrated to the U.S. Virtually all of them passed through or settled in New York City, and for many of them the public schools were the first experience with the larger American society. Brumberg's book chronicles this Jewish immigrant/school encounter in turn-of-the-century New York in a series of interrelated, sharply sketched chapters.... Brumberg's study ... is still of value in a field that invites continuing study. - Choice