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This book is a 'must read' for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day.

The compelling saga of a young Jewish boy coming of age during World War II. Paul Strassmann was fifteen when his family's life in Tren?in, Slovakia, was turned upside down by the war. His memoir tells one man's story of what it was like to be a teenager during World War II-what he learned, what he lost, and what he had to do to survive.

Authored by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, the essays collected here first cover American immigration history and law as they have developed since the late eighteenth century and then turn to consider some of the most prominent immigrant groups and the most striking episodes of nativism in American history.