World of our Fathers / Irving Howe with the assistance of Kenneth Libo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Irving.

Contributor:

Libo, Kenneth.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, East European--New York (State)--New York.

Jews, East European.

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

Jews.

Immigrants--New York (State).

Immigrants.

New York (State).

Yiddish language--New York (State)--New York.

Yiddish language.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Ethnic relations.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 714 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ; Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, [© 1976]

Contents:

Toward America. Origins; Departure and Arrival

The East Side. The early years, 1881-1900; Disorder and early progress; Slum and shop; The way we lived then; The restlessness of learning; Growing up in the Ghetto; Jewish Labor, Jewish Socialism; Breakup of the Left; Getting into American politics; American responses

The Culture of Yiddish. The Yiddish word; The Yiddish theatre; The scholar-intellectuals; The Yiddish press

Dispersion. Journeys outward; At ease in America?; Epilogue: Questions upon questions.

Notes:

"This edition was published for the members of the Jewish Publication Society of America (by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.)."

"This book tells the story of those east European Jews who, for several decades starting in the 1880's, undertook a massive migration to the United States."--Preface.

Blue cloth boards with embossed design on front cover; lettered in gold on spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-693) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1977

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0151463530

OCLC:

649059860