Research Catalog

Title

Remembering the Lower East Side : American Jewish reflections / edited by Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Diner, Hasia R.
• Shandler, Jeffrey.
• Wenger, Beth S., 1963-
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Description

viii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Copy in NYGB

Series Statement

Modern Jewish experience

Uniform Title

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Social conditions
• New York (State) > New York > Lower East Side
• Ethnic relations
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Social conditions
• Jews > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source (note)

• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society;

Contents

Introduction : Remembering the Lower East Side--a conversation / Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger -- Toward the onomastics of the great New York ghetto : how the Lower East Side got its name / Moses Rischin -- Photographing the Lower East Side : a century's work / Deborah Dash Moore and David Lobenstine -- Beyond place and ethnicity : the use of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire / Paula E. Hyman -- The ghetto girl and the erasure of memory / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Constructions of memory : the synagogues of the Lower East Side / David Kaufman -- The one-way window : public schools on the Lower East Side in the early twentieth century / Stephan F. Brumberg -- Re-creating recreations on the Lower East Side : restaurants, cabarets, cafes, and coffeehouses in the 1930s / Suzanne Wasserman -- Turfing the slum : New York City's Tenement Museum and the politics of heritage / Jack Kugelmass -- "Send a salami to your boy in the army" : sites of Jewish memory and identity at Lower East Side restaurants / Eve Jochnowitz -- Tripping down memory lane : walking tours on the Jewish Lower East Side / Seth Kamil -- The Lower East Side in the memory of New York Jewish intellectuals : a filmmaker's experience / Joseph Dorman -- Performing memory : "the matzoh factory" on the Lower East Side / Aviva Weintraub -- Translating Abraham Cahan, teaching the Lower East Side : a view from Italy / Mario Maffi.

Call Number

IRGV 01-2700

ISBN

• 0253337887
• 9780253337887

LCCN

00031042

OCLC

44016319

Title

Remembering the Lower East Side : American Jewish reflections / edited by Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger.

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern Jewish experience

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source

Gift; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 2008.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Diner, Hasia R.

Shandler, Jeffrey.

Wenger, Beth S., 1963-

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Other Form:

Online version: Remembering the Lower East Side. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)606486833

Research Call Number

IRGV 01-2700

*PXY 01-6103

NYGB N.Y. L M314.96 R36