The tenement saga : the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers /
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books,
©2004.
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| Edice: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Obsah:
- I: The lower east side
- Cultural history and topography
- Where did they come from?
- Immigrant life
- The immigrant woman and the family
- Education
- Work
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and the rise of labor laws
- The public forum: Jewish newspapers and periodicals
- Reading
- Religion and secularism
- Prostitution
- Other types of crime
- The impact of historical events
- The Yiddish theater
- Other forms of recreation and entertainment
- Food
- The lower east side tenement museum on Orchard Street
- Moving on
- II: Early Jewish American writers
- The writers
- Antecendents in American literature
- Themes
- City fiction
- Ambraham Cahan
- Anzia Yezierska
- Rose Cohen
- Marcus Eli Ravage
- Samuel Ornitz
- Marie Ganz
- Ben Hecht
- Michael Gold
- Samson Raphaelson
- Marya Zaturenska
- Louis Zukofsky
- Sydney Taylor
- Henry Roth
- Harry Roskolenko
- A group picture from the Williamsburg bridge.