The Lower East Side Jews: An Immigrant Generation

The Lower East Side Jews: An Immigrant Generation

<div>Many of the Jewish emigrants who fled Eastern Europe in the late 1800s settled in New York City€s Lower East Side, establishing a vital and colorful subculture populated by laborers, radicals, actors, poets, peddlers, journalists, and intellectuals. This dramatic narrative captures the community€s torrent of ideological battles, the rise of organized labor in the garment industry, the growth of the Yiddish press and theater, and much more. "An exemplary account"€"<I>The New York Times</I>. 29 photographs.<br></div>