We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930

About this book

This new documentary tells the story of the Jews who went West with their fellow immigrants to make new lives for themselves in "the new country." Constructed out of a rich treasury of many hitherto unpublished diaries memoirs and letters together with a fascination selection of contemporary newspaper articles photographs and drawings We Lived There Too is a chronicle of the gritty texture of real lives real people - their faults and foibles tempered by enormous reservoirs of courage and humanity.