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The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914
The Promised City New York's Jews 18701914 Author:Moses Rischin Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Hester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to th... more »is great influx of immigrants-a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.« less