A01=Ruth Gay
Author_Ruth Gay
Category=JBFH
Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393322408
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2001
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story—a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals—bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. "A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living—irrevocable and unforgotten."—Alfred Kazin
