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Research Interests

Dr. Soyer's research interests include the formation of American ethnic identities, ethnic fraternalism and community building, the relationship of immigrants in the US with their communities of origin, American Jewish history, and New York City politics. With Dr. Jocelyn Cohen, Dr. Soyer has edited and translated an anthology of immigrant autobiographies from the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Entitled My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants , it is available from New York University Press (2006). Dr. Soyer is also the editor of A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry was published in 2005 by Fordham University Press. His earlier book, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York , 1880-1939 (Harvard, 1997; paperback, Wayne State University Press, 2001), won the Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press. He has published articles in a number of journals and advised a variety of film and exhibition projects at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum , WNET-TV, the Museum of the City of New York , and elsewhere, and is a member of the academic council of the American Jewish Historical Society.