Remembering the Lower East Side
Subtitle: American Jewish Reflections (Modern Jewish Experience)
Contributors: Hasia R. Diner (Editor); Jeffrey Shandler (Editor); Beth S. Wenger (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780253337887
Subjects: Cultural studies; Jewish studies; United States - General; New York (N.Y.); Jews In The U.S; United States - State & Local - General; New York - Local History; History - General History; New York; Religion; Judaism - General; Jewish - General; Archaeology; New York (State); Social conditions; Jews; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
First sentence: To its most recent historians, it seems axiomatic that for the last half century the Lower East Side "has become the most popular locus of American Jewish memory," as Beth Wenger has intimated, and, in some measure, as Jenna Joselit has reminded us, our vision of the Lower East Side has been "a deliberate, willed act of creation," as in greater or lesser degree, are so many of our memories, at least in their details.