Life on the Lower East Side - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life on the Lower East Side write by Rebecca Lepkoff. This book was released on 2006-09-28. Life on the Lower East Side available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Life on the Lower East Side, the first monograph of Lepkoff's work, highlights the area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges from the Bowery to the East River. Over 170 beautifully reproduced duotone photographs and essays by Peter E. Dans and Suzanne Wasserman uncover a forgotten time and place and reveal how the Lower East Side remains both unaltered and forever changed."--BOOK JACKET.
Tenement
Tenement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tenement write by Raymond Bial. This book was released on 2002-08-26. Tenement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life on the Lower East Side was bustling. Immigrants from many European countries had come to make a better life for themselves and their families in the United States. But the wages they earned were so low that they could afford only the most basic accommodations—tenements. Unfortunately, there were few laws protecting the residents of tenements, and landlords took advantage of this by allowing the buildings to become cramped and squalid. There was little the tenants could do; their only other choice was the street. Though most immigrants struggled in these buildings, many overcame a difficult start and saw generations after them move on to better apartments, homes, and lives. Raymond Bial reveals the first, challenging step in this process as he leads us on a tour of the sights and sounds of the Lower East Side, guiding us through the dark hallways, staircases, and rooms of the tenements.
My Tenement Life on the Lower East Side
My Tenement Life on the Lower East Side - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Tenement Life on the Lower East Side write by Sam Zilberzweig. This book was released on 2020-07-19. My Tenement Life on the Lower East Side available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side:
The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: write by Gerard R. Wolfe. This book was released on 2013. The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition
Lower East Side Memories
Lower East Side Memories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lower East Side Memories write by Hasia R. Diner. This book was released on 2002-03-03. Lower East Side Memories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
