"Following World War II, Italy underwent a major social crisis owing to an unprecedented unemployment rate. As a result, both the Italian and the U.S. governments promoted and subsidized the emigration of the unemployed and the unskilled, particularly to Latin America, in order …
"Following World War II, Italy underwent a major social crisis owing to an unprecedented unemployment rate. As a result, both the Italian and the U.S. governments promoted and subsidized the emigration of the unemployed and the unskilled, particularly to Latin America, in order …
Road warriors: the migration and the peddlers -- Road runners: Jewish peddlers in their new worlds -- Along the road: Jewish peddlers and their new-world customers -- Road rage: Jewish peddlers and the perils of the road -- The end of the road: life after peddling -- Legacies of…
The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality--only to find xenophobia, paranoia and ultimately, in many cases, imprisonment or death in Stalin's Terror.
Washington Heights in located in New York City.