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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America / 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
Gay,Ruth.
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U.S.--NewYork--Jews--Sociallifeandcustoms.
Classification974.7 GAT
PublisherNew York & London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1996
SubjectU.S.--New York--Jews--Social life and customs.Jews, East European--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs.Jews--New York (State)--Social life and customs.Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs.Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
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ISBN9780393039917
URLhttps://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Unfinished_People.html?id=aawqhNc0L1wC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
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