Columbia University Press published At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews, 1920–1940 as the first volume of a new series, the Columbia history of Urban Life, edited by Kenneth Jackson. Jackson established the series to pick up where oxford University Press’s Urban Life in america series was leaving off.2 This earlier series was dying at the time and he wanted to promote research and writing on cities, including New York.3 a professor of urban history, Jackson arrived in 1968 at Columbia University, where I was a graduate student, though I never studied with him. he did, however, carefully read the manuscript version of the book.4 At Home in America appeared in January 1981. Its research, writing, and rewriting occurred during the decade of the 1970s. Jackson’s decision to start his new series with a book on secondgeneration New York Jews explicitly affirmed their centrality to urban history. It validated my focus on the neighborhood as an organic unit of Jewish life in the city and my decision to begin the second-generation story with Jews’ migration out of the Lower east side. I drew on historians’ theories of immigration to understand how Jewish migration among neighborhoods modified the development of community and ethnicity. historians emphasized both the “push” and the “pull” that were prompting people to move, and they recognized how migrants carried cultural baggage that often was transformed by the encounter with a different society.5 by contrast, sociological writing on areas of second settlement assumed that migration led directly to assimilation into american culture and society.6 Instead, I argued for recognition of

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哥伦比亚大学出版社出版了《在家在美国：第二代纽约犹太人，1920-1940 年》，作为由肯尼思·杰克逊编辑的新系列《哥伦比亚城市生活史》的第一卷。杰克逊创立这个系列是为了追寻牛津大学出版社的美国城市生活系列的落幕。2 这个早期的系列当时正在消亡，他想促进对包括纽约在内的城市的研究和写作。3 城市历史教授，杰克逊于 1968 年抵达哥伦比亚大学，在那里我是一名研究生，尽管我从未和他一起学习过。然而，他确实仔细阅读了该书的手稿版本。4 《美国之家》于 1981 年 1 月出版。它的研究、写作和改写发生在 1970 年代的十年间。杰克逊决定以一本关于第二代纽约犹太人的书开始他的新系列，明确肯定了他们在城市历史中的中心地位。它证实了我将社区作为城市中犹太人生活的一个有机单元的关注，以及我决定开始第二代犹太人迁移出下东区的故事。我利用历史学家的移民理论来了解社区之间的犹太移民如何改变社区和种族的发展。历史学家强调促使人们迁移的“推动”和“拉动”，他们认识到移民如何携带文化包袱，而文化包袱往往因与不同社会的相遇而改变。 5 相比之下，关于第二定居地区的社会学著作假设移民直接导致对美国文化和社会的同化。