At the edge of a dream
Subtitle: the story of Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side
By: Lawrence J. Epstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780787986223
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Jews -- Migrations; Jews, East European -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: "An Arthur Kurzweil Book."

"A Lower East Side Tenement Museum Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Escaping from the Old World; title: Landing at Ellis Island; title: Life in the tenements; title: Working on the Lower East Side; title: Life on these mean streets; title: Romance in the New World; title: Children and families; title: Politics and strife; title: The opponents of Jewish immigration; title: A helping hand; title: Religion and its rebels; title: Refuge on the Lower East Side; title: Yiddish theater; title: Yiddish journalism; title: Yiddish literature; title: The end of an era; title: The legacy of the Lower East Side.