My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Edited and Translated by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme "Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America". Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future is in America provide a compelling portrait of East European and American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Jocelyn Cohen is a Research Associate of YIVO's Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies in New York. Daniel Soyer is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University. He is the author of Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, which was co-winner of the 1999 Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society and Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize.