Irving Howe
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Language
English
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The National Book Award winning, New York Times bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a brilliant account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia,...
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