Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side (Documents in American Social History) - Softcover

Cohen, Rose

 
9780801482687: Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side (Documents in American Social History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801482682 ISBN 13: 9780801482687
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1995

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In this appealing autobiography, Rose Cohen looks back on her family's journey from Tsarist Russia to New York City's Lower East Side. Her account of their struggles and of her own coming of age in a complex new world vividly illustrates what was, for some, the American experience. First published in 1918, Cohen's narrative conveys a powerful sense of the aspirations and frustrations of an immigrant Jewish family in an alien culture.

With uncommon frankness, Cohen reports her youthful impressions of daily life in the tenements and of working conditions in garment sweatshops and domestic service. She introduces a large cast, including her co-workers, employers, mentors, family members, and friends. In simple yet moving terms, she recalls how, while confronting setbacks caused by poor health and dilemmas posed by courtship, she finds opportunities to educate herself. She also records the gradual weakening of her family's commitment to religion as they find their way from the shadow of poverty toward the mainstream of American life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His many books include Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, also from Cornell.

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In this appealing autobiography, Rose Cohen looks back on her family's journey from Tsarist Russia to New York City's Lower East Side. Her account of their struggles and of her own coming of age in a complex new world vividly illustrates what was, for some, the American experience.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801482682
ISBN 13 
9780801482687
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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