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 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Orientalism and the Early Syrians In my forthcoming book about the nineteenth-century Syrian colony of New York City (Strangers in the West), I purposely have not focused on Americans’ orientalist attitudes toward Syrians. Reporters regularly described their...
