The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-299-20480-8 | eISBN: 978-0-299-20483-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-20484-6
Library of Congress Classification PS153.J4S74 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9892407471
Cloth: 978-0-299-20480-8 | eISBN: 978-0-299-20483-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-20484-6
Library of Congress Classification PS153.J4S74 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9892407471
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, and Henry Roth, and others defined this new "Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists.
Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, politics, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into what they called "The Golden Land."
Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, politics, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into what they called "The Golden Land."
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