Remembering the Lower East Side : American Jewish reflections /
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000. |
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| Description: | viii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern Jewish experience Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4375790 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Remembering the Lower East Side - A Conversation / Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger
- Pt. 1. The Dynamics of Remembrance
- 1. Toward the Onomastics of the Great New York Ghetto: How the Lower East Side Got Its Name
- 2. Photographing the Lower East Side: A Century's Work / Deborah Dash Moore and David Lobenstine
- 3. Beyond Place and Ethnicity: The Uses of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire / Paula E. Hyman
- 4. The Ghetto Girl and the Erasure of Memory / Riv-Ellen Prell
- 5. Constructions of Memory: The Synagogues of the Lower East Side / David Kaufman
- 6. The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side in the Early Twentieth Century / Stephan F. Brumberg
- 7. Re-creating Recreations on the Lower East Side: Restaurants, Cabarets, Cafes, and Coffeehouses in the 1930s / Suzanne Wasserman
- Pt. 2. Contemporary Recollections
- 8. Turfing the Slum: New York City's Tenement Museum and the Politics of Heritage / Jack Kugelmass
- 9. "Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army": Sites of Jewish Memory and Identity at Lower East Side Restaurants / Eve Jochnowitz
- 10. Tripping down Memory Lane: Walking Tours on the Jewish Lower East Side / Seth Kamil
- 11. The Lower East Side in the Memory of New York Jewish Intellectuals: A Filmmaker's Experience / Joseph Dorman
- 12. Performing Memory: "The Matzoh Factory" on the Lower East Side / Aviva Weintraub
- 13. Translating Abraham Cahan, Teaching the Lower East Side: A View from Italy / Mario Maffi.
