Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.
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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story—a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals—bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. "A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living—irrevocable and unforgotten."—Alfred Kazin. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.
Awards
Winner of National Jewish Book Award 1997
About the Author
The late Ruth Gay wrote extensively on Jewish history. Her books include "Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II" and "The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait," both published by Yale University Press. Sophie Glazer's articles have appeared in "The Boston Review," "The Forward," "Commentary," and "The American Scholar," She lives in Fort Wayne.
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