Research Catalog

Title

First generation : in the words of twentieth-century American immigrants / [compiled by] June Namias ; foreword by Robert Coles.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Namias, June.

Description

xxiv, 278 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Immigrants > United States > Biography
• United States > Emigration and immigration > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• "An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Robert Coles -- I. New Beginnings: 1900-1929 -- Minnie Kasser Needle -- Jewish Grandmother -- Catherine Moran McNamara -- The Life of the Irish -- Nicholas Gerros -- Greek Horatio Alger -- Philip and Theresa Bonacorsi -- Children of the Lawrence Strike -- Mose and Joe Cerasoli -- Stonecutters in Vermont -- "Moshe Lodsky" -- From Russian Poland to the Lower East Side -- Valeria Kozaczka Demusz -- From Catholic Girlhood to Dorchester -- Richard O. Lim -- From the Laundries to San Francisco -- Natsu Okuyama Ozawa -- A Japanese Woman Remembers -- Willie Barientos -- Filipino Farmworker -- II. Survivors: 1930-1945 -- Araxi Chorbajian Ayvasian -- Deported from Armenia -- "Andres Aragon" -- After the Death of Spain -- Anna Foa Yona -- Leaving Fascist Italy -- Carl Cohen -- A German Jewish Survivor -- Kyoko Oshima Takayanagi -- Nisei Daughter Remembers the Camps -- III. New Generations: 1946-1990 -- "Anton Tamsaare" -- From Displaced Person to Distinguished Person -- Thomas Blatt -- Remembering Hungary -- Rodolfo de Leon -- Leaving Cuba -- "Elana Christopoulous" -- A Mother and Daughter from Greece -- Pasqualina -- Growing Up Italian and American -- Antonio Cardoso -- Boy from the Azores -- Graciela Mendoza Pena Valencia -- Mexican Farm Worker -- Alma Mejia Uminsky -- Guatemalan Girl, American Boy -- "Dr. A. L. Sarkar" -- Indian Researcher -- Deborah Padmore -- Trinidad Farewell -- "Brigitte Besimer" -- "Illegal Alien" -- "Lee Ki Chuck" -- From Korea to Heaven Country -- "Nguyen Thi Anh" -- After Vietnam -- "Masha" -- Child of the Soviet Intelligentsia
• Oscar Chacon -- "That War Has Been So Ruthless" -- "Mai Lin" -- Beyond Disneyland.

ISBN

0252061705 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91029946^

OCLC

• 24288765
• SCSB-11009467

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library