Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917a 1991 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299234447)

Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers who defined this new Jewish homeland and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists. Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into The Golden Land.

Author: Karen L. Ryan
ISBN-10: 0299234444
ISBN-13: 9780299234447
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/15/2010 pg. 20
Choice 03/01/2010