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Manners, Ande. Poor Cousins. Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc. New York. 1972. 318 pages. Hardcover.
German Jews who had arrived in America in the early nineteenth century had become almost wholly Americanized in customs and language by the end of the century, and had economic and political influence. But the last half of the century saw another large influx of Jews both from Germany and from countries east of Germany. The Americanized Jews saw these new arrivals as "poor cousins" and set about to Americanize them. At the same time, the newly arriving Jews tried to retain the customs of their old countries and fought vigorously against their Americanization.
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