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Publisher: To most Americans, New York City’s Lower East Side around the beginning of the twentieth century evokes a series of clichés. Colorful pushcart peddlers, raucous street urchins, rags-to-riches stories of a one- or two-generation rise from poverty. All this, of course, is part of the story, but in The Downtown Jews, Ronald Sanders goes beyond the clichés. He tells the sometimes harsh, sometimes humorous, multifaceted story of the Americanization of the Jewish immigrant. The book centers around the life of a remarkable figure, Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)—journalist, catalyst, agitator, and premier novelist of the sweatshop and ghetto life. When Cahan became the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, it was a minor Yiddish-language newspaper; at its peak, and his, it had one of the largest circulations of any newspaper in America. Both as editor of an influential newspaper and writer of the groundbreaking novel The Rise of David Levinsky, Cahan was pivotal to the Lower East Side experience. Flamboyant, imaginative, and egocentric, he exemplified, led, and transcended his generation.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Both the title and subtitle are misleading, since this is less a story of immigrant Jews, and more a biography of Abraham Cahan - the longtime editor of the Jewish Daily Forward - and the Jewish Socialist movement in the U.S. Focuses on the period from 1881 through the beginning of World War I. Using Cahan's life and the interests of his newspaper as a starting point, discusses the major issues confronting Jewish immigrants and their attempts to assimilate during this time period. 479 pages, with glossary, bibliography, and index. This Barnes & Noble reprint includes a foreword by Jewish historian Hasia Diner (who happens to be this bookseller's second cousin once removed). Seller Inventory # 000787
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