German-Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Post-World War II EraSample teaching plan for a multi-theme unit in an upper-level undergraduate course in American history, German history, Jewish history, ethnic studies, the history of migration, or immigrant entrepreneurship
Germany and the Emigration: 1816-1885Created By: Walker, Mack Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964
Griesedieck, Joseph’s naturalization papersJoseph Griesedieck’s naturalization papers, April 15, 1889
Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933–1945Created By: Krohn, Claus-Dieter, et al., eds Publisher: Darmstadt: Primus-Verlag, 1998
Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775Created By: Fogleman, Aaron Spencer Publisher: Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
Hotel Cecil and the Hotel Savoy with Cleopatra's Needle and the embankment along the Thames River, London, England, ca. 1901Hotel Cecil and the Hotel Savoy with Cleopatra's Needle and the embankment along the Thames River, London, England. American Stereoscopic…
How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1880Created By: Strickland, Jeff Source/Publisher: Journal of American Ethnic History 28.1 (2008): 52-69
Immigrants arriving at Castle Garden, New York City, 1866Immigrants arriving at Castle Garden, New York City, 1866. Wood engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 20 January 1866, vol.…
Jesselson, Ludwig’s Certificate of Arrival in the United StatesLudwig Jesselson’s Certificate of Arrival in the United States, May 10, 1937.
Jesselson, Ludwig’s Declaration of Intention and Petition for NaturalizationLudwig Jesselson’s Declaration of Intention and Petition for Naturalization.
Jesselson, Michael, Daniel, and Benjamin in NeckarbischofsheimMichael, Daniel, and Benjamin Jesselson in Neckarbischofsheim, their father’s place of birth. From a birthday booklet commemorating Ludwig Jesselson’s sixtieth…
Jewish emigrés aboard the RhakotisJewish emigrés aboard the Rhakotis, which took refugees from the St. Louis whom Britain agreed to allow to emigrate
Jewish Emigration from Germany. Nazi Policies and Jewish Responses (I + II)Created By: Strauss, Herbert A Source/Publisher: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 25-26 (1980-81): 313–361; 343–409
Jewish family's possessions boxed up for shipping to the United States, 1939A photograph by the German government news agency of a "Jewish family"'s possessions boxed up for shipping to the United…
Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USACreated By: Strauss, Herbert A., ed Publisher: New York and Munich: Saur, 1978–1987
Knights to Pioneers: One German Family in Westphalia and MissouriCreated By: Mallinckrodt, Anita M Publisher: Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994
Lamfrom, Marie, Naturalization PapersDeclaration of Intention [to become a naturalized U.S. citizen], Marie Lamfrom, October 18, 1937
Lamfrom, Paul, Naturalization PapersDeclaration of Intention [to become a naturalized U.S. citizen], Paul Lamfrom, October 18, 1937
Lammfromm, Paul’s certificate of arrival in the United StatesPaul Lammfromm’s certificate of arrival in the United States, August 5, 1937