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A Conversation with Taylor Shiroff, Author of “Next Year in America: A Family History of Eastern European Jews in the Old and New Worlds”
HIAS Pennsylvania Zoom
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Join us on Wednesday, June 26th, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT, for a conversation with author Taylor Shiroff, in honor of Immigrant Heritage Month. Taylor Shiroff is the author of Next Year in America: A Family History of Eastern European Jews in the Old and New Worlds. This conversation will be held virtually on Zoom.
About Next Year in America: A Family History of Eastern European Jews in the Old and New Worlds
Between 1880 and 1924, about two million Jews left the Russian Empire and its poverty and persecution in favor of immigrating to the United States. Few, if any, spoke English. Almost none were accustomed to electricity or running water inside homes. Most had never even seen a “modern” city.
Yet, despite lacking work experience to garner a living wage, they settled in. Within a generation, though Yiddish could still sometimes be heard, the typical Jew had become an assimilated American, striving for and even reaching the American Dream. This is their tale, as told through the lens of Taylor Shiroff’s ancestors.
About Taylor Shiroff
Taylor Shiroff is an economic research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and an avid armchair historian. When he was a child, he would listen to his great-grandfather tell family stories over Sunday lunches. After his great-grandfather passed, and his living relatives couldn’t answer his questions about the family’s history, he began researching the answers himself.
