To a New World: Photos and Impressions of America in 1937 - Hardcover

One summer day in 1937, Jon Bernstein left his home in Budapest, boarded the train to Hamburg, and embarked on a journey to America. He never looked back. In a series of photos and journal entries, this hopeful immigrant recorded his reactions and impressions upon leaving his native soil and envisioning a new life on the North American continent. This book reproduces a selection of those photo, thoughts, and aphorisms, capturing forever the thrill of exploring a New World for the very first time.

JON BERNSTEIN is the pseudonym of a Jewish immigrant from Budapest who arrived on the shores of the New World in 1937. The present book has been assembled from his photos and journal entries. CLAUS D. BERNET is a Berlin-based photographer and art historian. JUDY MANDELBAUM is a writer, journalist, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York.