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289 ■ N O T E S T O T H E F O R E W O R D 1. Milton Lehman, “Veterans Pour into New York to Find That Its Hospitality Far Exceeds Their Dreams,” New York Times, 8 July 1945, 51. 2. Ira Rosenwaike, Population History of New York City (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1972), 98, 101. 3. Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman, New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial (New York: Monacelli, 1995), 10, 13–19, 27–28. 4. Moses Rischin, The Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870–1914 (1962; repr., Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1977), 294. 5. “Levi Strauss,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss (accessed July 13, 2011). 6. Rischin, “Preface to the Paperback Edition,” in The Promised City, vii. 7. Ibid. “City of Ambition” refers to the 1910 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz taken approaching Lower Manhattan from New York Harbor. 8. In this and the following pages, the text draws on the three volumes of City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (New York: NYU Press, 2012). ■ N O T E S T O T H E I N T R O D U C T I O N 1. Y. Pfeffer, “Pesakh in Nyu York un Elis Ayland: Yetsies mitsrayim dertseylt in onkel sem’s hoyz,” Morgen zhurnal, April 12, 1906. 2. Carol Groneman and David Reimers, “Immigration,” in Kenneth Jackson, ed., Encyclopedia of New York City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 581. 3. CastleGarden.org, “Timeline,” http://www.castlegarden.org/timeline.php (accessed May 31, 2011). On Castle Garden generally, see Vincent Cannato, American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 30–49; George Svejda, “Castle Garden as an Immigrant Depot, 1855–1890,” report, Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior, 1968, especially 34–47, http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/elis/castle_ garden.pdf (accessed May 31, 2011); Andrew Dolkart, “Castle Garden,” in Jackson, Encyclopedia of New York City, 188. 4. New York Times, December 23, 1866. 5. Cannato, American Passage, 108 (quotes); Barbara Blumberg, “Ellis Island,” in Jackson , Encyclopedia, 372–373; Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Marjorie Lightman, Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide (New York: New Press, 1997), 64–70. 6. Aaron Domnitz, “Why I Left My Old Home and What I Have Accomplished in America,” in Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, eds., My Future Is in America: N O T E S 290 ■ Notes to the Introduction Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (New York: NYU Press, 2006), 138–139. 7. Minnie Goldstein, “Success or Failure?,” in Cohen and Soyer, My Future Is in America , 28. 8. Ben Reisman, “Why I Came to America,” in Cohen and Soyer, My Future Is in America, 66; Domnitz, “Why I Have Left My Old Home,” 139, 141–145. ■ N O T E S T O C H A P T E R 1 1. Asa Green, Travels in America (New York, 1833), 43, quoted in Rudolf Glanz, Studies in Judaica Americana (New York: Ktav, 1970), 127; George G. Foster, New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver (New York, 1849), 14–15, quoted in Egal Feldman, “Jews in the Early Growth of New York City’s Men’s Clothing Trade,” American Jewish Archives 12:1 (April 1960): 6–7. 2. Isaac Mayer Wise, Reminiscences, ed. David Philipson (Cincinnati: L. Wise, 1901), 17. 3. Cornelius Mathews, A Pen and Ink Panorama of New York City (New York, 1853), 164, quoted in Glanz, Studies in Judaica Americana, 127. 4. Hyman Grinstein, The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York, 1654–1860 (Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1945), 263, 586. 5. Mary Wasserzug Natelson, “The Rabbi’s House (Story of a Family),” trans. Rachel Natelson, manuscript in authors’ possession. 6. Philip Cowen, Memories of an American Jew (New York: International Press, 1932), 24–26. 7. Stanley Nadel, Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845– 80 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 99. 8. Grinstein, Rise of the Jewish Community, 469; Nathan Kantrowitz, “Population,” in Kenneth Jackson, ed., Encyclopedia of New York City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 922. 9. Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 739. 10. Naomi W. Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United...

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