Description: Demonstrates the variety, complexity, and ramifications of the contacts and connections between Jews in America and their co-religionists abroad.
Review Quotes:
Together, [. . .] Kahn and Mendelsohn make a refreshing contribution to the field of migration studies by pushing historians and social scientists to pay attention to specific phenomena and use these to interrogate theoretical concepts and approaches developed in the previous generation's work on Jewish migration and American Jewish history.
--Hannah Holtschneider "East European Jewish Affairs"