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A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.
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.
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Eric Cidade
reviewed World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made on February 02, 2011 World of Our Fathers
This is a fascinating account of the two million East European Jews who migrated to New York City's Lower East Side beginning in the 1880's. The book describes the immigrants' attempts to maintain their Yiddish culture while at the same time, due to both external pressures and their own desires, fit into American society. Among the most interesting topics covered are poverty, education, socialism and the labor movement, Yiddish literature and the Yiddish theater. There are nearly thirty entertaining and enlightening photographs and, a highlight,, loads of drawings by Jacob Epstein. Irving Howe, the author, was a top literary critic and intellectual who was part of this diaspora. Absorbing and fact-filled, the book helped me to get in touch with my own Jewish roots but would be a terrific and informative read for non-Jews, as well.
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