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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America

Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America

Gay, Ruth

Paperback

AnthropologyEastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0393322408
ISBN13: 9780393322408
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Oct 1 2001
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story--a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals--bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living--irrevocable and unforgotten.--Alfred Kazin

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