28911 - THE LAST SHIPS FROM HAMBURG, THE BUSINESS, RIVALRY, AND THE RACE TO SAVE RUSSIA’S JEWS ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I (IN-PERSON)

CWRU-Siegal Lifelong Learning

Course Description

Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York’s Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Ujifusa’s critically acclaimed book is a history on an intimate and epic scale, and offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, and war—and delivers crucial insight into the Jewish experience and American national identity in our time.