Remembering the Lower East Side : American Jewish reflections
For more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognised and scrutinised as having been the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish neighbourhood in America when East European Jews flocked to American shores. This book explores the dynamics of Lower East Side memory.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2000
viii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780253337887, 9780590120548, 0253337887, 0590120549
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Introduction : Remembering the Lower East Side
a conversation / Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger
Toward the onomastics of the great New York ghetto : how the Lower East Side got its name / Moses Rischin
Photographing the Lower East Side : a century's work / Deborah Dash Moore and David Lobenstine
Beyond place and ethnicity : the use of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire / Paula E. Hyman
The ghetto girl and the erasure of memory / Riv-Ellen Prell
Constructions of memory : the synagogues of the Lower East Side / David Kaufman
The one-way window : public schools on the Lower East Side in the early twentieth century / Stephan F. Brumberg
Re-creating recreations on the Lower East Side : restaurants, cabarets, cafes, and coffeehouses in the 1930s / Suzanne Wasserman
Turfing the slum : New York City's Tenement Museum and the politics of heritage / Jack Kugelmass
"Send a salami to your boy in the army" : sites of Jewish memory and identity at Lower East Side restaurants / Eve Jochnowitz
Tripping down memory lane : walking tours on the Jewish Lower East Side / Seth Kamil
The Lower East Side in the memory of New York Jewish intellectuals : a filmmaker's experience / Joseph Dorman
Performing memory : "the matzoh factory" on the Lower East Side / Aviva Weintraub
Translating Abraham Cahan, teaching the Lower East Side : a view from Italy / Mario Maffi
Includes biographical references and index