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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... Jewish Plymouth Rock . It has come to stand for Jewish authenticity in America , for a moment in time when undiluted ... immigrant era and project a particu- lar past , told through the themes of a particular space . This book explores the ...
... Jewish culture , where he learned about America as an immigrant Jew . My extended family on my mother's side made their home in our region's big city , Chicago , having landed in the lesser and less sacred port of Baltimore . But even ...
... Jewish girl growing up in San Antonio , Texas , in those same years , in the affluent but decidedly non - Jew- ish ... immigrant garb of fifty years earlier . They reenacted the stories of the five girls of the Lower East Side and , without ...
... Jewish life in the 1950s . A community made up primarily of the children of immigrants , Jews in America were now , for the first time , fully American and fully middle class . Having just witnessed , but from afar , a harrowing period ...
... Jewish immigrant life in New York took second place to a reified and singular Lower East Side . We actually have no history of the designation " Lower East Side , " its coinage , usage , and why this name , as opposed to others , stuck ...
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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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