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The Promised City: New Yorks Jews 18701914 Revised Edition (Harvard Paperback)

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Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements the Rester Street markets the sweatshops the birth of Yiddish theatre in America and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes too the citys response to this great influx of immigrantsa response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.