Sanders, Ronald, 1932-1991.

The Lower East Side : a guide to its Jewish past with 99 new photographs / text by Ronald Sanders ; photographs by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.

New York : Dover Publications, 1979.

83, [2] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

For nearly half a century, from the 1870s to 1920, wave after wave of Jewish immigrants poured into New York City. Fleeing poverty and persecution, yearning for freedom, Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe sought a new life in the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side. With toil, sweat and dreams they built a rich and vital subculture -- one that produced a long line of prominent Americans, including Samuel Gompers, George Gershwin, Abraham Cahan, Jacob Epstein, Paul Muni, Jan Peerce, Eddie Cantor and countless others. This volume of evocative photographs, together with Ronald Sanders' lucid and informative text, focuses on the turbulent and colorful Jewish past as it survives in numerous structures and locales: synagogues, settlement houses, theaters, parks, restaurants, schools and cemeteries. Most of the photographs are contemporary, and in geographical order, making this an ideal guidebook to an unusually rich and unexplored area of New York life.

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Jews New York (State) New York Pictorial works.
Juifs New York (État) New York Ouvrages illustrés.
Jews
Jewish social life.
Jewish way of life
New York (N.Y.) Pictorial works.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Lower East Side
United States, New York, New York, Lower East Side Minorities

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illustrated books.
History
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Gillon, Edmund Vincent, photographer.

Location: Library main 35606
Call No.: ID:88-B6887
Status: Available