The Jewish East Side, 1881-1924

by Hindus, Milton

• ISBN13: 9781560008422
• ISBN10: 1560008423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

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 Cain 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Introduction
Autobiography	p. 1
Yekl	p. 17
The Rise of David Levinsky	p. 33
A Dreamer's Journey	p. 39
Impressions and Experiences	p. 51
The American Scene	p. 65
Autobiography	p. 81
How the Other Half Lives	p. 93
The Children of the Poor	p. 107
My Ten Years' War with the Slums	p. 121
The Spirit of the Ghetto	p. 127
Louis Marshall: Champion of Liberty	p. 167
Green Worlds	p. 173
By the Waters of Manhattan	p. 201
Call It Sleep	p. 221
Windows on Henry Street	p. 251
Neighborhood	p. 257
Red Ribbon on a White Horse	p. 265
The New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 301
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