The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories

• Main Author: Weinstein, Bernard (Author) (auth)
• Other Authors: Wolfthal, Maurice (Translator) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2018
• Subjects: immigration; United States; unionism; socialism; United Hebrew Trades; Jewish history; Jewish Unions; labor history; Bernard Weinstein
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of...