Good Americans

Italian and Jewish Immigrants in the First World War

By: Christopher M. Sterba

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Paperback | 1 March 2003

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Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrants, both on the homefront and overseas, in the Great War. While residing in strong, insular communities, both groups faced a barrage of demands to participate in a conflict that had been raging in their home countries for nearly three years. Italians and Jews "did their bit" in relief, recruitment, conservation, and war bond campaigns, while immigrants and second-generation ethnic soldiers fought on the Western front. Within a year of the Armistice, they found themselves redefined as foreigners and perceived as a major threat to American life, rather than remembered as participants in its defense. Wartime experiences, Christopher Sterba argues, served to deeply politicize first and second generation immigrants, greatly accelerating their transformation from relatively powerless
newcomers to a major political force in the United States during the New Deal and beyond.

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"Sterba recognizes the unique complexity of the process by which identity is constructed and suggests thatthe impact of the war on immigrant consciousness was to no small extent a function of the specific cultural background of each group, the local socioeconomic and political realities each faces in America, and the military units in which its members served...This is a generally interesting, informative, and well-textured book."--New York History "A well-researched and well-argued monograph. For anyone interested in immigration, urban or, World War One history."--H-Net Reviews "Good Americans provides rich detail on the role of the state and federal government, especially the military, in the lives of ordinary immigrants."--American Jewish History

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Migration, Immigration & Emigration Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Physical Anthropology Military History First World War History

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Good Americans	p. 2
Introduction The Melting Pot Goes to War	p. 3
The Heyday of the New Immigrant Enclave	p. 9
Your Country Needs You	p. 31
Raising Volunteers and the Italian Response in New Haven	p. 34
The Draft and New York Jewry	p. 53
Training the New Immigrant Soldier	p. 83
Being Italian in the Yankee Division	p. 86
Being Jewish in the National Army	p. 105
The Home Front	p. 131
More Than Ever, We Feel Proud to Be Italians	p. 133
New York Jewry Must Do Its Duty	p. 153
Survival and Victory on the Western Front	p. 175
Epilogue: A New Voice in Politics	p. 202
Notes	p. 213
Selected Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 265
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