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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America

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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter AmericaNearly 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

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/2001
ISBN: 9780393322408
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
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