Research Catalog

Title

World of our fathers / Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo ; with a foreword by Morris Dickstein.

Author

Howe, Irving

Publication

New York : New York University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Libo, Kenneth

Description

xxvi, 714 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made

Subject

• Jews, East European > United States > Identity
• Jews, East European > United States > Social conditions
• Jews, East European > Cultural assimilation > United States

Note

• Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 651-693) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Toward America: Ch. 1. Origins -- Ch. 2. Departure and arrival -- Pt. 2. The east side: Ch. 3. The early years, 1881-1900 -- Ch. 4. Disorder and early progress -- Ch. 5. Slum and shop -- Ch. 6. The way they lived then -- Ch. 7. The restlessness of learning -- Ch. 8. Growing up in the ghetto -- Ch. 9. Jewish labor, Jewish socialism -- Ch. 10. Breakup of the the left -- Ch. 11. Getting into American politics -- Ch. 12. American responses -- Pt. 3. The culture of Yiddish: Ch. 13. The Yiddish word -- Ch. 14. The Yiddish theatre -- Ch. 15. The scholar-iltellectuals -- Ch. 16. The Yiddish press -- Pt. 4. Dispersion: Ch. 17. Journeys outward -- Ch. 18. At ease in America?

ISBN

0814736858

OCLC

• 62709825
• SCSB-12550959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library