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Article: World of Our Masters.(Critical Essay)
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- American Jewish History
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- December 1, 2000
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I seem to have read Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers a hundred times since my emigration to America from Poland in 1980. I read it first shortly after my arrival in this country, as I was intensely educating myself in American Jewish history, and then when conceptualizing my own historical sociological studies of the adaptation of East European Jewish immigrants and their offspring outside of New York. I also read and reread the book for the courses I teach on American Jewish history, historical ethnographic methods, and historical sociology, in which I have used different fragments and different layers of this book.
World of Our Fathers is a historical study ...