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Irving Howe

World of Our Fathers

The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

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The National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a brilliant account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan's teeming tenements. Like others before and after, they struggled to hold on to the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5040-4755-5
  • EAN: 9781504047555
  • Produktnummer: 31910566
  • Verlag: Open Road Media
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 714 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 48'608 KB

Über den Autor


Irving Howe (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Best known for World of Our Fathers, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years.

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