Just before the turn of the century, America was a land of stability and contrasts. The emigrants from Eastern European misery and oppression faced hardship and a strangers' newness. But they found...voir plusJust before the turn of the century, America was a land of stability and contrasts. The emigrants from Eastern European misery and oppression faced hardship and a strangers' newness. But they found something that they had never known - opportunity - a land and a society in which a man was not to be frozen in the position of his fathers if he had the qualities to succeed. Pearl Sieben tells the stories of Al Jolson and how he utilized oppurtunity.voir moins