Title: Lower East Side memories : a Jewish place in America /
Authors: Diner, Hasia R.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Jews New York (State) New York Social life and customs; Jews New York (State) New York Intellectual life; Immigrants New York (State) New York Social life and customs; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs; New York (State) New York (State) New York Ethnic relations.; New York (State) Ethnic relations.
Abstract: "Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcartlined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction: The Stirrings of Memory -- Ch. 1. The Lower East Side and American Jewish Memory -- Ch. 2. The Texts of Memory: Representations of the Lower East Side -- Ch. 3. The Wellsprings of Memory.