| World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made Contributor(s): Howe, Irving (Author), Dickstein, Morris (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0814736858 ISBN-13: 9780814736852 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. "Irving Howe has written a great book . . . a marvelous narrative." World of Our Fathers is a book for Jew and non-Jew, for immigrants and native-born Americans. It is a book for all people."--"Chicago Tribune Book World" Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 301.451 |
| LCCN: 75016342 |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 6.48" W x 9.18" (2.63 lbs) 768 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: A classic exploration of the American Jewish experience by one of our greatest twentieth-century intellectuals Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the journeys of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a paperback edition, which includes a foreword by the noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howe, Irving: - Irving Howe (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Best known for World of Our Fathers, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years. Dickstein, Morris: -Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970 . |