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On the Trail of The Immigrant by Edward A. STEINER (1866 - 1956)
Genre(s): Modern (19th C)

Read by: Michele Fry, Mark Chulsky, Soumen Barua, Denise Nordell, Mike Pelton in English

Parts:
Part 2 https://youtu.be/iR04qFKRbJw

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - By Way of Introduction
00:09:17 - 02 - The Beginning of the Trail
00:29:01 - 03 - The Fellowship of the Steerage
00:53:58 - 04 - Land, Ho!
01:16:05 - 05 - At the Gateway
01:35:01 - 06 - 'The Man at the Gate'
01:58:01 - 07 - The German in America
02:22:38 - 08 - The Scandinavian Immigrant
02:41:23 - 09 - The Jew in His Old World Home
03:04:31 - 10 - The New Exodus
03:19:00 - 11 - In the Ghettos of New York
03:53:36 - 12 - The Slavs at Home
04:28:16 - 13 - The Slavic Invasion
04:57:58 - 14 - Drifting with the 'Hunkies'
05:20:16 - 15 - The Bohemian Immigrant
05:44:48 - 16 - Little Hungary
06:07:39 - 17 - The Italian at Home
06:22:34 - 18 - The Italian in America
06:50:23 - 19 - Where Greek Meets Greek

How did the immigrants come to America? Who were they? What Where did they come from? In this book, Edward Steiner tells of the experiences of immigrants from Hungry, Poland, Scandanavia, Germany, Italy and many other countries as they leave everything and board a boat to an unknown future. Steiner was born to a well-to-do Jewish-Slovak-Hungarian family in a Carpathian village, and was educated in Vienna and Heidelberg and immigrated to the United States in 1886. His later American experiences are quite incredible, precisely because it seems that he made every effort not to miss any of the steps of the immigration experiences; not only the familiar sweatshop saga of his fellow east European Jews, but also metal works in Pittsburgh; mining with Poles in Pennsylvania; cropping for the Amish; being Jailed for months for having been indirectly involved in a strike; getting trapped on a railway bridge as the train was running against him; being brutally mugged in Chicago; being shoved off a cattle train car in Ohio while on his way to becoming a rabbi in the East Coast; and finally, finding a warm Christian home in a small Mid-Western town with a pastor and his wife. Ultimately, in this environment, and under the continuing inspiration of Tolstoy, he became a Christian and a pastor himself, and ever active for progressive causes. This is an important book in the history of immigration. - Summary by Phil chenevert

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