The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914, Revised edition (Harvard Paperback)

Type

Book

Authors

Moses Rischin

ISBN 10

0674715012

ISBN 13

9780674715011

Tags

State & Local, Immigrants, Ethnic Studies, United States, Social Sciences

Description

Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants―a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility. - from Amzon

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