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The tenement saga
the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers
By Sternlicht, Sanford V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-29920-480-8
- Publisher
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 27, 2004
Folding childhood memories into an academic study, author Sternlicht (Student Companion to Elie Wiesel and Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion) delivers readers to a distant world with which he is still exceedingly comfortable. Sternlicht's volume is divided into two parts: the first gives a history of the Lower East Side from approximately 1882-1924--the years of a great wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to America; the second presents a critical study of 14 early Jewish American writers. From the outset, the author dives deep into the sights, sounds and smells of his childhood as the son of Jewish immigrants, discussing among other things, the popular Yiddish ne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
