At the edge of a dream : the story of Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side 1881920
This beautiful book tells the nostalgic tale of how millions of Jewish immigrants entered America through the portal of the Lower East Side. There in New York City they struggled and ultimately flourished in a neighborhood that was the center of Jewish work, family, and culture.
History
xv, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9780787986223, 0787986224
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Escaping from the Old World
Landing at Ellis Island
Life in the tenements
Working on the Lower East Side
Life on these mean streets
Romance in the New World
Children and families
Politics and strife
The opponents of Jewish immigration
A helping hand
Religion and its rebels
Refuge on the Lower East Side
Yiddish theater
Yiddish journalism
Yiddish literature
The end of an era
The legacy of the Lower East Side
"An Arthur Kurzweil book."
"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
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