02157nam a22003017i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007603500320009104000310012308200180015410000200017224500960019226400310028830000140031933600260033333700280035933800270038752012790041465000310169365000210172465000230174565000120176865000150178065000150179565000160181065000290182620261016202617.0261016s1994    xx ||||| |||||||| 0|eng d  a9780805791099  a0805791094  a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780805791099  aKOHALIBbengerdacKOHALIB04a973.040342231 aStave, Bruce M.10aFrom the old country :ban oral history of European migration to America /cBruce M. Stave. 1aNew York :bTwayne,c1994.  a281 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aFor nearly a century, the symbol of the American "melting pot" - namely that all cultures are transformed into a single American identity - has enjoyed considerable popularity. Bruce M. Stave and John F. Sutherland offer the reader an opportunity to explore and question this and other concepts in From the Old Country, an oral history comprising the voices of the early European immigrants - the Irish, Scandinavians, Italians, Jews, Poles, Slavs, and others - who came to America by the millions between the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. The authors, both practicing oral historians, have compiled their interviews and others conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. This resulting blend is a new and enlightening, sometimes disturbing, perspective on the forefathers and foremothers who gave so much to the country that they have adopted as their own. Their interviews, combined with those of the WPA, enable the authors to offer the reader a perspective of at least three generations of immigrant experience. From the Old Country presents the concept that while there were, and are, many common experiences encountered by the American immigrant, there are also experiences that are not shared by all ethnic groups and individuals. 4aEmigration and Immigration 4aEthnic Relations 4aEuropean Americans 4aHistory 4aImmigrants 4aInterviews 4aImmigranten 4aEuropeans, United States