Originally published in 1978. Millions of immigrants seeking a better life came to New York City in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ronald H. Bayor's study details how the relative tranquility among the city's four major ethnic groups was disturbed by economic depression, political divisions arising out of ties with the Old Country, and factional strife stirred up by local politicians seeking ethnic votes. Also evaluated are the effects of such emotional and political issues such as Nazism and Fascism upon the allegiances of Germans and Italians; the rift in the ethnic community caused...
Originally published in 1978. Millions of immigrants seeking a better life came to New York City in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ronald H. Bayor's study details how the relative tranquility among the city's four major ethnic groups was disturbed by economic depression, political divisions arising out of ties with the Old Country, and factional strife stirred up by local politicians seeking ethnic votes. Also evaluated are the effects of such emotional and political issues such as Nazism and Fascism upon the allegiances of Germans and Italians; the rift in the ethnic community caused by the communist scare; and the influence of such figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Charles Coughlin, and Fiorello La Guardia.
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Ethnic Setting Chapter 2. Economic Collapse Chapter 3. La Guardia and the New Ethnic Order Chapter 4. The Old World Influence Chapter 5. Communism, Coughlinism
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Ethnic Setting Chapter 2. Economic Collapse Chapter 3. La Guardia and the New Ethnic Order Chapter 4. The Old World Influence Chapter 5. Communism, Coughlinism, and the Church Chapter 6. Going to War Chapter 7. Winning the Votes Chapter 8. In the Neighborhoods Chapter 9. On Ethnic Conflict Notes Essay on Sources Index
Ronald H. Bayor is a professor emeritus of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is author of Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941, and coeditor of The New York Irish, both published by Johns Hopkins.