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How we lived : a documentary history of immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 / [edited by] Irving Howe and Kenneth Libo.
LIBRA F128.9.J5 H58
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LIBRA - Rare F128.9.J5 H58 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--New York (State)--New York.
- Jews.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York--Lower East Side.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- New York (N.Y.)--Local conditions.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 360 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Richard Marek Publishers, [1979]
- Contents:
- 1. Origins: The old ways; Enlightenment; Off to America
- 2. The Scene: The shock of America; In the home; Growing up in the ghetto; Working their way up; A sense of community
- 3. Bintel Brief: Letters to the Editor
- 4. Religion: Disruption; Rabbis and Aantors; Shul, Cheder, Yeshiva; Orthodox and secular; Holidays
- 5. Women: Mothers and daughters; Daughters and fathers; Thoughts and feelings; Women at work; Getting organized; Modern problems
- 6. Labor and Socialism: Sweatshop; Early unions, early rebellions; Struggles and victories
- 7. Education: Educating the immigrants; Educating the children
- 8. Politics: Tammany and the Jews; Inside and outside; Reform and the Jews
- 9. Theater: Early years; The Adler Period; In the modern style
- 10. Cutlure: A plebian yearning; Yiddish voices
- 11. Beyond New York: Country life; City life.
- Notes:
- "Through a matching of word and picture we have tried in this book to evoke an intimate yet objective sense of life in the immigrant Jewish milieu during the late years of the nineteenth century and the early years of this century."--Preface.
- "Designed by Andor Braun."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1980".
- Potok Collection copy is "Second Impression".
- ISBN:
- 0399900519 :
- OCLC:
- 4956817
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