2nd Edition

The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924

By Arthur N. Wiens Copyright 1996
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

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"... Read more
Jacob Epstein; Abraham Cahan; Morris Raphael Cohen; William Dean Howells; Henry James; Lincoln Steffens; Jacob Riis; Hutchins Hapgood; Louis Marshall; Maurice Hindus; Charles Reznikoff; Henry Roth; Lillian Wald; Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch; Anzia Yezierska; James Gibbons Huneker

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