Posted by Nat Bernstein
It’s been a while since we featured a nonfiction title on The ProsenPeople’s Book Cover of the Week series, so how’s this for a break:
Kenyon Zimmer explores how the anarchist movement at the turn of the twentieth century enabled American immigrant communities — Italian and Jewish, in particular — to shed their nationalist loyalties without enforcing assimilation into “the Melting Pot”; instead embracing differences and diversity as they adapted to a new life in the United States.
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Nat Bernstein is the former Manager of Digital Content & Media, JBC Network Coordinator, and Contributing Editor at the Jewish Book Council and a graduate of Hampshire College.