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Title: Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914, Revised Edition (Revised)
Author: Moses Rischin
ISBN: 0674715012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1977
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 342
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city’s response to this great influx of immigrants–a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.
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