Book
Strangers in the West : the Syrian colony of New York City, 1880-1900
Publication Information
New York : Kalimah Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xix, 474 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary
The never-before-told story of the Arab immigrants who settled in New York City, beginning in 1880. They came primarily from what was then known as "Greater Syria," and settled in tenements on the lower west side of Manhattan, founding an Arabic-speaking enclave just south of the future site of the World Trade Center. Arriving in the New World with little more than their resourcefulness and business acumen, these immigrants quickly built a thriving "colony" that was the cultural and economic center of the Syrian diaspora in America.