"The Rest of Us" (The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews) - Stephen Birmingham

The last addition to Stephen Birmingham’s historical trilogy, following "Our Crowd" and The Grandees, "The Rest of Us" recounts the immigration of Eastern European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Birmingham spotlights the successes of several of these famous immigrants, including Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubinstein, and Irving Berlin.