"Make America Your Country as Well as Your Home" - Yiddish guides for prospective U.S. citizens
Jan 30 #691267 The Yiddish Book Center recently posted on its website an article entitled "Make America Your Country as Well as Your Home: Jewish immigration to the United States" The article describes a booklet entitled “How to Take Out Your First Papers." First published as "an easy book in plain English for the coming citizen," it was republished in a combination of English and Yiddish in the early 1920s. To guide new immigrants through the process of filing the papers needed to become U.S. citizens, the booklet addressed matters such as English vocabulary needed to complete required paperwork, new laws about the citizenship of married women, and U.S. history and government. Several pages of the booklet appear in the article, as do links to other guidebooks in the Book Center's collection that were published in Yiddish to help those applying for U.S. citizenship: A follow-up to the English version of the featured booklet -- "How to Take Our Your Second or Citizen Papers" -- is available in full on GoogleBooks: https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Take_Out_Your_First_Papers/5AWRwVez1O4C?gbpv=1 Among its sections: "The Final Steps," "How to Become a Citizen," How to Take Out Second Papers," "What to Tell the Clerk," and "Facts You Must Know" -- all with details of interest to those researching naturalization records. Renee Renee Stern Steinig Dix Hills (Long Island) NY |
