Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lower East Side MemoriesCondition: NewSubtitle: A Jewish Place in AmericaISBN-10: 0691095450EAN: 9780691095455ISBN: 9780691095455Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/03/2002Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Hasia R. DinerGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Lower East Side Memories
Title: Lower East Side Memories
Subtitle: A Jewish Place in America
ISBN-10: 0691095450
EAN: 9780691095455
ISBN: 9780691095455
Release Date: 03/03/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Lower East Side Memories : a Jewish Place in America
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Customs & Traditions, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Hasia R. Diner
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
