Over the last century, immigrants to America, may have had many common experiences, regardless of where they came from. But a recent book by Mount Holyoke College professor Donald Weber contends the Jewish immigrant experience has been unique. And Weber argues in his book, Haunted in the New World, that the different experiences of Jewish Americans appear in the books, essays, films and television programs crafted by them. He says their cultural works reflect the tension they experienced between nostalgia for the world they left behind, and their desire to mix in with others in their new country.