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The Ritz with a Shvitz : The Rise and Fall of the Lower East Side's Libby's Hotel in Tammany Era New York.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Shulamith Z.
- Series:
- Excelsior Editions Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bernstein, Max, 1870-1930.
- Jewish sociology.
- Great Fire, New York, N.Y., 1776.
- Local Subjects:
- Bernstein, Max, 1870-1930.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The shocking story of how a haven for the Lower East Side's Jewish population was destroyed by New York's rapacious real estate interests.There were few options for Jewish patrons looking for a place to stay or celebrate key life events in turn-of-the-century New York City.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: You Have Not Been to New York if You Have Not Been to Libby's
- Prologue: Digging for Libby's
- 1. The Jewish Times Square: Cloudy, with a Chance of Flowers
- Max and Mot'l
- In the Blossom of Her Days
- The Lower East Side's Edifice Complex
- Di Shenste
- "A Model of Beauty and Modern Architecture"
- Near Church
- The Pushcart Peddler Financier
- 2. The Story of the Story: Max and the Pioneering Advertising Professionals
- Salesmanship in Print
- The Perfect Mentor for Max
- Marketing at Its Cleverest
- Wooing Guests and Investors
- 3. Life at Libby's: Libby's Hotel Celebrates
- The Sports Pages
- Radio Days
- Max Tries to Soldier On
- 4. Dark Clouds: The Competition
- Financing the Hotel
- AMBAM
- Bubbles!
- Safe and Secure
- Masters of Equivocation
- 5. The Foreclosure: High Finance and Low Morals
- Moving Papers
- Owner Ejected, Ejecting Guests
- The Eleventh-Hour Appeal
- Winner Take All
- 6. "What Price Condemnation?": A Neighborhood in Flux
- A Veneer of Benevolence
- Resistance Is Useless
- Financing Walker's Plan
- The Condemnation Awards
- The Holdouts
- 7. What's Libby's Got to Do with It? : The Moores Against the World
- The Federal Case
- The Libby's Foreclosure Appeal
- The Moores' Criminal Conviction Appeal
- The Demolition of the Neighborhood
- Joseph Force Crater
- Samuel Seabury, Justice
- "Max Bernstein, Once Hotel Owner"
- Epilogue: A Sinkhole Grows in Manhattan
- Appendix I: Research in the Bad Old Days
- Appendix II: Divine Dining on the Lower East Side
- Appendix III: Putting on the Ritz: Bennie and Harry Spend a Summer Day at Libby's
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Berger, Shulamith Z. The Ritz with a Shvitz
- ISBN:
- 9798855807288
- 9798855807271
- OCLC:
- 1597386143
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