Title The tenement saga : the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers / Sanford Sternlicht.

Descript 1 online resource (xv, 171 pages) Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index. Contents I: The lower east side -- Cultural history and topography -- Where did they come from? -- Immigrant life -- The immigrant woman and the family -- Education -- Work -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and the rise of labor laws -- The public forum: Jewish newspapers and periodicals -- Reading -- Religion and secularism -- Prostitution -- Other types of crime -- The impact of historical events -- The Yiddish theater -- Other forms of recreation and entertainment -- Food -- The lower east side tenement museum on Orchard Street -- Moving on -- II: Early Jewish American writers -- The writers -- Antecendents in American literature -- Themes -- City fiction -- Ambraham Cahan -- Anzia Yezierska -- Rose Cohen -- Marcus Eli Ravage -- Samuel Ornitz -- Marie Ganz -- Ben Hecht -- Michael Gold -- Samson Raphaelson -- Marya Zaturenska -- Louis Zukofsky -- Sydney Taylor -- Henry Roth -- Harry Roskolenko -- A group picture from the Williamsburg bridge. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism. Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York. Jewish authors -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life. Judaism and literature -- New York (State) -- New York. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature. Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- History. Immigrants in literature. Jews in literature. Jews. Jews New York City -- ethnology LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135 American literature (OCoLC)fst00807113 American literature -- Jewish authors (OCoLC)fst00807197 Authors, American -- Homes and haunts (OCoLC)fst00821779 Immigrants in literature (OCoLC)fst00967800 Intellectual life (OCoLC)fst00975769 Jews in literature (OCoLC)fst00983388 Jews -- Intellectual life (OCoLC)fst00983287 Judaism and literature (OCoLC)fst00984436 Literature (OCoLC)fst00999953 Tenement houses (OCoLC)fst01147587 New York (State) -- New York (OCoLC)fst01204333 New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side (OCoLC)fst01322916 ISBN 0299204839 (electronic bk.) 9780299204839 (electronic bk.) 1282269666 9781282269668 9786612269660 6612269669 0299204804 9780299204808 0299204847 9780299204846