The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl

by Alan Lupo

Book Overview

In The Messiah Comes Tomorrow, veteran journalist Alan Lupo recounts the stories of working-class Jews, both those he grew up with in Boston and those he interviewed elsewhere over four decades. "For too long now," he writes, "the perception of Jews in America is that of an upper-middle-class people engaged mainly in 'the professions' and rarely doing the dirty work. Thanks to the clich s of modern literature and film, the Jew is seen as a kvetch,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558492836
• ISBN13: 9781558492837
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"