The Lower East Side Jews : an immigrant generation /

The Lower East Side Jews : an immigrant generation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sanders, Ronald, 1932-1991
Uniform title:	Downtown Jews
Imprint:	Mineola, NY : Dover Publications, 1999.
Description:	477 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Cahan, Abraham, -- 1860-1951. Cahan, Abraham, -- 1860-1951. Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.) Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.) Jews -- New York (State) -- New York. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York. Ethnic relations. Immigrants. Jews. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4429731

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ISBN:	0486409015 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations
Preface to the Dover Edition
1.. Russia, 1881
2.. New York, 1882
3.. The Radicals of Rivington Street
4.. Anarchists, Socialists, and Labor Unions
5.. The Yiddish Labor Press Begins
6.. Sweatshop Poets
7.. The Founding of The Jewish Daily Forward
8.. How a Publicist Became a Man of Letters
9.. Interlude: With Yankees
10.. A "Russian" Bemoans His Exile in America
11.. Cahan Returns to the Forward; or, The Fable of the Birds
12.. Yiddish Theater, I.: The Beginnings
13.. Yiddish Theater, II.: The Feud Between Cahan and Jacob Gordin
14.. 1905
15.. A Bundle of Letters
16.. Lords of the Press
17.. Jewish Labor Comes of Age
18.. The Exile Is an American at Last
19.. The Long Twilight
Appendix. Some Notes on Transliteration, and a Glossary
Notes and Acknowledgments
Index
Biographical Note