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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
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