World of our fathers : the Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made.

World of our fathers : the Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made. / Irving Howe.

The National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howe, Irving
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Open Road Media, 2017.
Subjects:
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York.
Jews > New York (State) > New York.
Jews, East European > New York (State) > New York.
Yiddish language > New York (State) > New York.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > Jewish.
Yiddish language
Jews, East European
Jews
Immigrants
Ethnic relations
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
New York (State) > New York
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction by Morris Dickstein; Preface; 1 Toward America; 1 Origins; The World of the Shtetl; Ferment and Enlightenment; The Start of Social Change; The Prospect of America; 2 Departure and Arrival; Crossing into Europe; The Lure of America; From Border to Port; The Ordeal of Steerage; At Ellis Island; A Work of Goodness; "Hordes" of Aliens; Open Door-and Closed; The Jews Who Came; 2 The East Side; 3 The Early Years, 1881-1900; The First Shock; "A Gray, Stone World"; A New Tempo, a New Way; Peddling and Sewing; Going to the Land.
  • In the TenementsThe Implacability of Gentleness; A Chaos in Hebrew; Dislocation and Pathology; Voices of the Left; What Migration Meant; 4 Disorder and Early Progress; An Early Combat; New Tastes, New Styles; Spreading Across the City; An Experiment in Community; The Failure of the Banks; Beginnings of a Bourgeoisie; What the Census Shows; A Slow Improvement; 5 Slum and Shop; Working in the Shops; Rising in the World; Ways to Make a Living; 6 The Way They Lived Then; At the Heart of the Family; Boarders, Desertions, Generational Conflict; The Inner World of the Landsmanshaft.
  • Shul, Rabbi, and CantorVersions of Belief; From Heder to Secular School; Dreamers of a Nation; A Bit of Fun on the East Side; Up into the Catskills; Matchmakers, Weddings, Funerals; To the Brim; 7 The Restlessness of Learning; "Americanizing" the Greenhorns; A Visit to the Cafes; A Passion for Lectures; The Self-Educated Worker; Fathers and Sons; 8 Growing Up in the Ghetto; Parents and Children; Delinquents and Gangs; Girls in the Ghetto; Going to School; Jewish Children, American Schools; Immigrants and the Gary Plan; City College: Toward a Higher Life; 9 Jewish Labor, Jewish Socialism.
  • Early WeaknessesThe Girls and the Men; The Triangle Shirt Fire; The Jewish Working Class; The Socialist Upsurge; The Meaning of Jewish Socialism; 10 Breakup of the Left; Civil War in the Garment Center; Dual Unions-and the Furriers; A Network of Culture; Recovery, Growth, Adaptation; From Politics to Sentiment; 11 Getting into American Politics; Getting on with Tammany; The Jews and the Irish; Maneuvering Within the City; Low Roads, High Roads; 12 American Responses; The Native Reformers; Stage, Song, and Comic Strip; From Henry Adams to Henry James; Legal Rights, Social Rebuffs.
  • 3 The Culture of Yiddish13 The Yiddish Word; Sweatshop Writers; Poets of Yiddishkeit; The Rise of Di Yunge; Three Yiddish Poets; The Modernist Poets; Literary Life on the East Side; Yiddish Fiction in America; After the Holocaust; An Unyielding Voice; 14 The Yiddish Theatre; The Vital Hacks; Time of the Players; A Theatre of Festival; Art and Trash; An Art of Their Own; 15 The Scholar-Intellectuals; Where Should They Go?; Dean of Critics; A Gifted Voice; A Disinterested Historian; 16 The Yiddish Press; Kindergarten and University; A New Journalism; Tell Me, Dear Editor.

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