The tenement saga : the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers / Sanford Sternlicht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sternlicht, Sanford, 1931-2021.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Authors, American.

Jewish authors--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Jewish authors.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Judaism and literature--New York (State)--New York.

Judaism and literature.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.

Tenement houses.

Immigrants in literature.

Jews in literature.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--In literature.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 171 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, and Henry Roth, and others defined this new "Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists. Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, politics, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into what they called "The Golden Land."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One. The Lower East Side

Part Two. Early Jewish American Writers

Conclusion: A Group Picture from the Williamsburg Bridge

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-164) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269660

9781282269668

1282269666

9780299204839

0299204839