by Linda K. Jacobs | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Unlike the other early Syrian immigrants who have been featured in my blogposts to date, Naoum Mokarzel is well known to scholars and third-generation Syrian-Americans. He was an important publisher, spokesman for his community, and an exemplary man in many ways. What...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The following post is an excerpt from my about-to-appear book, Strangers in the West, about the travails of the earliest Syrian immigrants who arrived in New York harbor in the 1880s. Although the “First Syrian Immigrant Family” arrived in New York in...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Even today, successful women entrepreneurs are as rare as hen’s teeth. Imagine what it took for a nineteenth century woman from a conservative Arab immigrant community to become one of the premier jewelers in New York. Marie El-Khoury was that woman. The Azeez Family...
