The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility. |
Contents
City Unlimited | 3 |
The East European Captivity | 19 |
Torah Haskala and Protest | 34 |
Part Two THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT | 49 |
Urban Economic Frontiers | 51 |
The Lower East Side | 76 |
Germans versus Russians | 95 |
Part Three JUDAISM SECULARIZED | 113 |
Part Four LEARNING A NEW SOCIAL ETHIC | 169 |
Labors Dilemma | 171 |
Reform in Full Stride | 195 |
The Political Wilderness | 221 |
Dawn of a New Era | 236 |
Epilogue | 258 |
Bibliographical Note | 275 |
Notes | 283 |
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