Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in AmericaPrinceton University Press, 3 mars 2002 - 219 sidor Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. |
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A Jewish Place in America Hasia R. Diner. CONTENTS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 INTRODUCTION The Stirrings of Memory 17 CHAPTER ONE The Lower East Side and American Jewish Memory 52 CHAPTER TWO The Texts of Memory : Representations of the Lower ...
... memories of American Jewish geography . Given that I had the Lower East Side on my mind , I decided to think about it as the sacred space of the American Jewish past as the topic for my Wexler lecture . It seemed appropriate for this ...
... Jews have explored their past in America . The Lower East Side has become fixed in American Jewish memory as the site from which a singular story has been told . It has all the markings of an apocryphal tale : a people persecuted in the ...
... American Jewish Plymouth Rock . It has come to stand for Jewish authenticity in America , for a moment in time when ... memory actually do not fit the history . Other Jews , not from east- ern Europe , lived on these streets well before the ...
A Jewish Place in America Hasia R. Diner. I have subsequently learned that my engagement from afar with the neighborhood through All - of - a - Kind Family was not unique or idiosyncratic . A young Jewish girl growing up in San Antonio ...
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The Lower East Side and American Jewish Memory | 17 |
The Texts of Memory Representations of the Lower East Side | 52 |
The Wellsprings of Memory | 127 |
NOTES | 183 |
INDEX | 209 |
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