She was not a person but a whole kind of person, the ones who crossed the ocean, who brought with us to America the villages of Russia and Lithuania—and how we struggled, and how we fought, for the family, for the Jewish home, so that you would not grow up here, in this strange place, in the melting pot where nothing melted. Descendants of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America [...] Because she carried the old world on her back across the ocean, in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue, or in Flatbush, and she worked that earth into your bones, and you pass it to your children, this ancient, ancient culture and home. You can never make that crossing that she made, for such great voyages in this world do not any more exist. But every day of your lives, the miles that voyage between that place and this one you cross. Every day. You understand me? In you that journey is. (Rabi Isidor Chemelwitz, Angels in America, Act one Scene one)

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移民，定居，运动钉子托马斯，移民的身影，加州斯坦福：斯坦福大学出版社，2015年；312页，ISBN：9780804787178，$ 80.11（hbk）。

她不是一个人，而是一个完整的人，一个越过大洋的人，他们把我们带到了俄罗斯和立陶宛的村庄，以及我们如何挣扎，如何为家庭，为犹太人的家庭而斗争。 ，这样您就不会在这个陌生的地方，在没有任何东西融化的熔炉中长大。这位移民妇女的后裔，您不会在美国长大，因为她背着旧世界背着大海，坐着小船，把它放到了大广场大道或弗拉特布什，她把那个大地打入了你的骨头，然后你把它传给了你的孩子，这个古老，古老的文化和家园。您永远都无法穿越她所做的那一次穿越，因为这个世界上如此伟大的航行已不复存在。但是，在您的生活中，每一天都是从那个地方到您穿越的那英里。每天。你明白我的意思？在你的旅途中。（Rabi Isidor Chemelwitz，《美国天使》，第一个场景，第一幕）