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Jewish Literary Voices: A Federation Series in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council
In Opening Doors, Hasia R. Diner, one of the world’s preeminent historians of immigration, details how Jewish and Irish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America at the turn of the twentieth century. The book draws from historical sources to dispel the popular belief that these groups regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. Diner shows the prevailing relationships between Jewish and Irish Americans were overwhelmingly cooperative, and the two groups were dependent upon one another to secure stable and upwardly mobile lives in their new home.
Hasia Diner is a professor of American Jewish History and former chair of the Irish Studies program at New York University. She is the author of numerous books on Jewish and Irish histories in the U.S., including the National Jewish Book Award-winning We Remember with Reverence and Love, which also earned the Saul Veiner Prize for most outstanding book in American Jewish history.
Purchase the book HERE and a portion of the proceeds will be donated back to a local independent Bookstore in the Berkshires.
