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World of Our Fathers

Title
World of Our Fathers / Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo.
Author
Howe, Irving
Publication
  • New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1976]
  • ©1976

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  • Libo, Kenneth.
  • Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Description
xx, 714 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
This book discusses the Jews of Eastern Europe who emigrated to America during the four decades beginning in the 1880s and the life they made, especially those who settled on the East Side of New York City.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Subject
  • Jews, East European > New York (State) > New York
  • Jews > New York (State) > New York
  • Immigrants > New York (State) > New York
  • Yiddish language > New York (State) > New York
  • Ethnic relations
  • Immigrants
  • Jews
  • Jews, East European
  • Yiddish language
  • New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
  • New York (State) > New York
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-693) and index.
Source (note)
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society;
Awards (note)
  • American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1978.
  • Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1977.
Contents
Toward America. Origins ; Departure and arrival -- The east side. The early years, 1881-1900 ; Disorder and early progress ; Slum and shop ; The way they lived then ; The restlessness of learning ; Growing up in the ghetto ; Jewish labor, Jewish socialism ; Breakup of the Left ; Getting into American politics ; American responses -- The culture of Yiddish. The Yiddish word ; The Yiddish theatre ; The scholar-intellectuals ; The Yiddish press -- Dispersion. Journeys outward ; At ease in America? -- Questions upon questions.
Call Number
*PXY 76-4205
ISBN
  • 0151463530
  • 9780151463534
LCCN
75016342
OCLC
1500208
Author
Howe, Irving, author.
Title
World of Our Fathers / Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo.
Publisher
New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1976]
Copyright Date
©1976
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-693) and index.
Awards
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1978.
Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1977.
Source
Gift; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 2008.
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Libo, Kenneth.
Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Other Form:
Online version: Howe, Irving. World of our fathers. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1976 (OCoLC)556890526
Research Call Number
*PXY 76-4205
*R-JWS F128.9.J5 H6 1976
NYGB N.Y.C. G 41.561
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