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 Rester 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 this great influx of immigrants-a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.
- ISBN10 006131515X
- ISBN13 9780061315152
- Publish Date 8 October 1970
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint Joanna Cotler Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360
- Language English