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- Author: Ruth Gay
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393322408
- ISBN-13: 9780393322408
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story--a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals--bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living--irrevocable and unforgotten.--Alfred Kazin
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- Author: Ruth Gay
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393322408
- ISBN-13: 9780393322408
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story--a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals--bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living--irrevocable and unforgotten.--Alfred Kazin
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