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Jewish Involvement in Shaping U.S. Immigration Policy
7 Jewish Involvement in Shaping Immigration Policy Today, .. the immigrants above all the Jewish immigrants seem more American than [the WASP] does. They are the faces and voices and inflec-tions of thought that seem most familiar to us, literally second nature. [The WASP] is the odd ball, the stranger, the fossil. We glance at him, a bit star-tled and say to ourselves, Where did he go? We remember him: pale, poised, neatly dressed, briskly sure of himself. And we see him as an out-sider, an outlander, a reasonably noble breed in the act of vanishing.. He has stopped being representative, and we didn t notice it until this minute. Not so emphatically, anyway. What has happened since World War II is that the American sensibility has become part Jewish , perhaps as much Jewish as it is anything else.. The literate American mind has come in some measure to think Jewishly.
7 Jewish Involvement in Shaping U.S. Immigration Policy Today, . . . the immigrants—above all the Jewish immigrants—seem …
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