Streets
Subtitle: a memoir of the Lower East Side
By: Bella Spewack ; introduction by Ruth Limmer ; afterword by Lois Raeder Elias.
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899- -- Homes and haunts -- New York (N.Y.); Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899- -- Childhood and youth; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
Description: Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived with her mother on the streets of New York's Lower East Side in 1902 when she was three years old. At twenty-three, while working as a reporter in Berlin, she wrote this memoir of her early years. After returning to the United States, Bella and her husband, Sam Spewack, became successful playwrights, most notably for the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate.