The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914

by Moses Rischin

Book Overview

Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674715020
• ISBN13: 9780674715028
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.