HOME

On the Trail of The Immigrant

On the Trail of The Immigrant

Author(s):

Genre(s):

Narrators: , , , ,

Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 08 hours and 56 minutes

Language: English

How did the immigrants come to America? Who were they? What Where did they come from? In this book, Edward Steiner tells of the experiences of immigrants from Hungry, Poland, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and many other countries as they leave everything and board a boat to an unknown future. Steiner was born to a well-to-do Jewish-Slovak-Hungarian family in a Carpathian village, and was educated in Vienna and Heidelberg and immigrated to the United States in 1886. His later American experiences are quite incredible, precisely because it seems that he made every effort not to miss any of the steps of the immigration experiences; not only the familiar sweatshop saga of his fellow east European Jews, but also metal works in Pittsburgh; mining with Poles in Pennsylvania; cropping for the Amish; being Jailed for months for having been indirectly involved in a strike; getting trapped on a railway bridge as the train was running against him; being brutally mugged in Chicago; being shoved off a cattle train car in Ohio while on his way to becoming a rabbi in the East Coast; and finally, finding a warm Christian home in a small Mid-Western town with a pastor and his wife. Ultimately, in this environment, and under the continuing inspiration of Tolstoy, he became a Christian and a pastor himself, and ever active for progressive causes. This is an important book in the history of immigration. - Summary by Phil chenevert

Listening:
Continue to listen:    
By Way of Introduction (Michele Fry)
The Beginning of the Trail (Michele Fry)
The Fellowship of the Steerage (Michele Fry)
Land, Ho! (Michele Fry)
At the Gateway (Michele Fry)
“The Man at the Gate” (Michele Fry)
The German in America (Michele Fry)
The Scandinavian Immigrant (Michele Fry)
The Jew in His Old World Home (Michele Fry)
The New Exodus (Michele Fry)
In the Ghettos of New York (Michele Fry)
The Slavs at Home (Mark Chulsky)
The Slavic Invasion (Mark Chulsky)
Drifting with the “Hunkies” (Mark Chulsky)
The Bohemian Immigrant (Mark Chulsky)
Little Hungary (Soumen Barua)
The Italian at Home (Michele Fry)
The Italian in America (Michele Fry)
Where Greek Meets Greek (Soumen Barua)
The New American and the New Problem (Soumen Barua)
The New American and Old Problems (Soumen Barua)
Religion and Politics (Denise Nordell)
Birds of Passage (Mike Pelton)
In the Second Cabin (Mike Pelton)
Au Revoir (Michele Fry)
The audiobook On the Trail of The Immigrant falls under the genres of . It is written by .