World of Our Fathers by Howe, Irving -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction by Morris Dickstein Preface 1 Toward America

1 Origins

The World of the Shtetl Ferment and Enlightenment The Start of Social Change The Prospect of America

2 Departure and Arrival

Crossing into Europe The Lure of America From Border to Port The Ordeal of Steerage At Ellis Island A Work of Goodness “Hordes” of Aliens Open Door—and Closed The Jews Who Came

2 The East Side

3 The Early Years, 1881–1900

The First Shock “A Gray, Stone World” A New Tempo, a New Way Peddling and Sewing Going to the Land In the Tenements The Implacability of Gentleness A Chaos in Hebrew Dislocation and Pathology Voices of the Left What Migration Meant

4 Disorder and Early Progress

An Early Combat New Tastes, New Styles Spreading Across the City An Experiment in Community The Failure of the Banks Beginnings of a Bourgeoisie What the Census Shows A Slow Improvement

5 Slum and Shop

Working in the Shops Rising in the World Ways to Make a Living

6 The Way They Lived Then

At the Heart of the Family Boarders, Desertions, Generational Conflict The Inner World of the Landsmanshaft Shul, Rabbi, and Cantor Versions of Belief From Heder to Secular School Dreamers of a Nation A Bit of Fun on the East Side Up into the Catskills Matchmakers, Weddings, Funerals To the Brim

7 The Restlessness of Learning

“Americanizing” the Greenhorns A Visit to the Cafes A Passion for Lectures The Self-Educated Worker Fathers and Sons

8 Growing Up in the Ghetto

Parents and Children Delinquents and Gangs Girls in the Ghetto Going to School Jewish Children, American Schools Immigrants and the Gary Plan City College: Toward a Higher Life

9 Jewish Labor, Jewish Socialism

Early Weaknesses The Girls and the Men The Triangle Shirt Fire The Jewish Working Class The Socialist Upsurge The Meaning of Jewish Socialism

10 Breakup of the Left

Civil War in the Garment Center Dual Unions—and the Furriers A Network of Culture Recovery, Growth, Adaptation From Politics to Sentiment

11 Getting into American Politics

Getting on with Tammany The Jews and the Irish Maneuvering Within the City Low Roads, High Roads

12 American Responses

The Native Reformers Stage, Song, and Comic Strip From Henry Adams to Henry James Legal Rights, Social Rebuffs

3 The Culture of Yiddish

13 The Yiddish Word

Sweatshop Writers Poets of Yiddishkeit The Rise of Di Yunge Three Yiddish Poets The Modernist Poets Literary Life on the East Side Yiddish Fiction in America After the Holocaust An Unyielding Voice

14 The Yiddish Theatre

The Vital Hacks Time of the Players A Theatre of Festival Art and Trash An Art of Their Own

15 The Scholar-Intellectuals

Where Should They Go? Dean of Critics A Gifted Voice A Disinterested Historian

16 The Yiddish Press

Kindergarten and University A New Journalism Tell Me, Dear Editor Voice of Immigrant Socialism Other Papers, Other Voices The Time of the Day Writing to the End

4 Dispersion

17 Journeys Outward

Entertainers and Popular Artists Painters and Sculptors The American-Jewish Novelists The New York Intellectuals

18 At Ease in America?

The Suburbs: New Ways to Live Into the Public Realm The Holocaust and After Israel and the American Jews A Fear Beyond Escaping The Immigrant Survivors

Epilogue: Questions upon Questions Image Gallery Reference Notes Glossary of Yiddish Terms Bibliographical Notes Index Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Page