The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immigrant Generation by Ronald Sanders, Hasia R. Diner

The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immigrant Generation

Ronald Sanders, Hasia R. Diner

479 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Many of the Jewish emigrants who fled Eastern Europe in the late 1800s settled in New York City’s Lower East Side, establishing a vital and colorful subculture populated by laborers, radicals, actors, poets, peddlers, journalists, and intellectual...

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