From Alien To Citizen

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Edward A. Steiner In Year : 1914

Book Language: English

Audiobook: From Alien To Citizen

Preface
Prophecy and Fulfilment
The Comparative Steerage
The Voyage in a " Nutshell "
The Last Landing and the First
Looking for Work and the First Sunday
In the Sweat Shop
Learning English and Going to Princeton
An Involuntary Tolstoyan
Westward Ho!
Pittsburgh Then and Now
Justified Faith
In Darkest Pittsburgh
From Steel to Coal
Criminal Immigrant
How Tramps Are Made
The Gate into Chicago
Among the Bohemians
The Great Harvest Fields
Mine No. 3
An Irish Providence
A Turning Point
The School of the Rabbis
The School of the Prophets
From Alien to Citizen
My First Parish
The Lower Town Church
The Lower Town Parsonage
The Church of the Three Problems
The Magic Watch
The Chair of Applied Christianity

Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversity of beliefs, habits, ethics, prejudices, expectations, etc., throws them into the "melting pot", and within a few generations most are shaped into full blooded Americans. This rarely happens in Europe, where people move from country to country but rarely become countrymen. Steiner, a wonderful writer, relates his own experience as a young penniless immigrant who, after becoming successful, devoted his life to helping newcomers adjust, lecturing around the world and writing numerous books on immigration. This one is his personal story: his arduous trek from home country to the American "sweat shop, the mills and mines with their grinding labor, the open courts, the jail, the open road with its dangers", experiences in American homes and schools and the Christian Church, his evolution from Jew to Christian minister, University Professor, and immigration scholar. ~ Summary by Michele Fry