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The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: The Library of Conservative Thought
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This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a
collection of literature and documents ranging from the
autobiography of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the novels of
Abraham Cahan to the reporting of William Dean Howells and the
fictional reconstruction of a vanished world by Henry Roth. The
world is that of the old shtetl transplanted to a new, growing
country, where "the ghetto" (in the years 1881-1924) was an
unstable mixture of nostalgic elements and the pressures of
American economic and social reality. The productivity, both
intellectual and material, of the section of New York known as the
East Side during those forty years around the turn of the twentieth
century has become a legend among many Jews in this country and
deserves to become better known to many more of other ethnic
origins. The lower East Side was paradoxically a wilderness to be
traversed and a portion of that "promised land" which had been
glimpsed with so much hope from afar. To wonderfully talented and
observant children, like Jacob Epstein, the streets there in the
1880s were as filled with excitement as those of the Arabian
Nights. To serious philosophic young men like Morris Raphael Cohen,
they were as challenging as the marketplace of Athens had once been
to Socrates to achieve intellectual enlightenment and the
improvement of the social order. The conditions of abominable
crowding and poverty described in the sociological tracts of Jacob
Riis, Lillian Wald, and others are better known perhaps to the
average reader than the accounts of such pleasures as the dancing
schools, the Yiddish theaters, the cafes, the lectures, the
literary ferment and activities, described in the pages of Abraham
Cahan and Hutchins Hapgood. But all the views presented in The
Jewish East Side, both dark and bright, are recognizably parts of
the same picture. This book will be of value to sociologists,
historians, researchers specializing in Judaic studies, and
students of literature.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Library of Conservative Thought |
Release date: |
March 2018 |
First published: |
1996 |
Authors: |
Milton Hindus
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
310 |
Edition: |
2nd edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-53643-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-53643-1 |
Barcode: |
9781138536432 |
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