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How we lived : a documentary history of immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 / [edited by] Irving Howe and Kenneth Libo.
- Title
- How we lived : a documentary history of immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 / [edited by] Irving Howe and Kenneth Libo.
- Publication
- New York : R. Marek, c1979.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Copy 2 | Text | Request in advance | F128.9.J5 H58 Copy 2 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 360 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- A vibrant collection of photographs, drawings, illustrations and texts depicting the experience of immigrant Jews in America from 1880 to 1930. Includes photography by such masters as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 349-354.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Origins: The old ways; Enlightenment; Off to America -- 2. The Scene: The shock of America; In the home; Growing up in the ghetto; Working their way up; A sense of community -- 3. Bintel Brief: Letters to the Editor -- 4. Religion: Disruption; Rabbis and Aantors; Shul, Cheder, Yeshiva; Orthodox and secular; Holidays -- 5. Women: Mothers and daughters; Daughters and fathers; Thoughts and feelings; Women at work; Getting organized; Modern problems -- 6. Labor and Socialism: Sweatshop; Early unions, early rebellions; Struggles and victories -- 7. Education: Educating the immigrants; Educating the children -- 8. Politics: Tammany and the Jews; Inside and outside; Reform and the Jews -- 9. Theater: Early years; The Adler Period; In the modern style -- 10. Culture: A plebian yearning; Yiddish voices -- 11. Beyond New York: Country life; City life.
- ISBN
- 0399900519
- LCCN
- ^^^79013391^
- OCLC
- 4956817
- SCSB-11705961
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library