History of the Jews in America

About this book

Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and English. In this great work he traces the history of the Jewish people in the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the beginning of the twentieth century. This book is divided into seven parts: I. The Spanish and Portuguese Period, II. The Dutch and English Colonial Period, III. The Revolution and the Period of Expansion, IV. The Second or German Period of Immigration, V. The Civil War and the Formative Period, VI. The Third or Russian Period of Immigration, VII. The Twentieth Century - Present Conditions. - Summary by Larry Wilson