World of Our Fathers,9780814736852

World of Our Fathers

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Edition: 30th
ISBN13: 9780814736852
ISBN10: 0814736858
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): New York Univ Pr
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Summary

World of Our fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made was first published in 1976, and went on to receive the National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Foreword xix
Morris Dickstein
Preface xxv
Toward America
Origins
5(21)
The World of the Shtetl
7(8)
Ferment and Enlightenment
15(5)
The Start of Social Change
20(4)
The Prospect of America
24(2)
Departure and Arrival
26(41)
Crossing into Europe
29(5)
The Lure of America
34(2)
From Border to Port
36(3)
The Ordeal of Steerage
39(3)
At Ellis Island
42(4)
A Work of Goodness
46(4)
``Hordes'' of Aliens
50(3)
Open Door--and Closed
53(4)
The Jews Who Came
57(10)
The East Side
The Early Years, 1881--1900
67(52)
The First Shock
69(2)
``A Gray, Stone World''
71(3)
A New Tempo, a New Way
74(3)
Peddling and Sewing
77(7)
Going to the Land
84(2)
In the Tenements
86(4)
The Implacability of Gentleness
90(4)
A Chaos in Hebrew
94(2)
Dislocation and Pathology
96(5)
Voices of the Left
101(14)
What Migration Meant
115(4)
Disorder and Early Progress
119(29)
An Early Combat
123(4)
New Tastes, New Styles
127(3)
Spreading Across the City
130(3)
An Experiment in Community
133(2)
The Failure of the Banks
135(2)
Beginnings of a Bourgeoisie
137(4)
What the Census Shows
141(3)
A Slow Improvement
144(4)
Slum and Shop
148(21)
Working in the Shops
154(5)
Rising in the World
159(4)
Ways to Make a Living
163(6)
The Way They Lived Then
169(56)
At the Heart of the Family
171(6)
Boarders, Desertions, Generational Conflict
177(6)
The Inner World of the Landsmanshaft
183(7)
Shul, Rabbi, and Cantor
190(5)
Versions of Belief
195(5)
From Heder to Secular School
200(4)
Dreamers of a Nation
204(4)
A Bit of Fun on the East Side
208(7)
Up into the Catskills
215(3)
Matchmakers, Weddings, Funerals
218(4)
To the Brim
222(3)
The Restlessness of Learning
225(31)
``Americanizing'' the Greenhorns
229(6)
A Visit to the Cafes
235(3)
A Passion for Lectures
238(6)
The Self-Educated Worker
244(5)
Fathers and Sons
249(7)
Growing Up in the Ghetto
256(31)
Parents and Children
261(2)
Delinquents and Gangs
263(1)
Girls in the Ghetto
264(7)
Going to School
271(3)
Jewish Children, American Schools
274(4)
Immigrants and the Gary Plan
278(2)
City College: Toward a Higher Life
280(7)
Jewish Labor, Jewish Socialism
287(38)
Early Weaknesses
289(6)
The Girls and the Men
295(9)
The Triangle Shirt Fire
304(2)
The Jewish Working Class
306(4)
The Socialist Upsurge
310(11)
The Meaning of Jewish Socialism
321(4)
Breakup of the Left
325(35)
Civil War in the Garment Center
330(8)
Dual Unions--and the Furriers
338(2)
A Network of Culture
340(7)
Recovery, Growth, Adaptation
347(10)
From Politics to Sentiment
357(3)
Getting into American Politics
360(35)
Getting on with Tammany
365(9)
The Jews and the Irish
374(3)
Maneuvering Within the City
377(6)
Low Roads, High Roads
383(12)
American Responses
395(22)
The Native Reformers
398(3)
Stage, Song, and Comic Strip
401(4)
From Henry Adams to Henry James
405(4)
Legal Rights, Social Rebuffs
409(8)
The Culture of Yiddish
The Yiddish Word
417(43)
Sweatshop Writers
421(4)
Poets of Yiddishkeit
425(3)
The Rise of Di Yunge
428(4)
Three Yiddish Poets
432(7)
The Modernist Poets
439(1)
Literary Life on the East Side
440(5)
Yiddish Fiction in America
445(6)
After the Holocaust
451(5)
An Unyielding Voice
456(4)
The Yiddish Theatre
460(37)
The Vital Hacks
463(4)
Time of the Players
467(6)
A Theatre of Festival
473(12)
Art and Trash
485(7)
An Art of Their Own
492(5)
The Scholar-Intellectuals
497(21)
Where Should They Go?
500(7)
Dean of Critics
507(4)
A Gifted Voice
511(2)
A Disinterested Historian
513(5)
The Yiddish Press
518(37)
Kindergarten and University
522(5)
A New Journalism
527(6)
Tell Me, Dear Editor
533(4)
Voice of Immigrant Socialism
537(6)
Other Papers, Other Voices
543(2)
The Time of the Day
545(4)
Writing to the End
549(6)
Dispersion
Journeys Outward
555(53)
Entertainers and Popular Artists
556(17)
Painters and Sculptors
573(12)
The American-Jewish Novelists
585(13)
The New York Intellectuals
598(10)
At Ease in America?
608(31)
The Suburbs: New Ways to Live
613(8)
Into the Public Realm
621(5)
The Holocaust and After
626(1)
Israel and the American Jews
627(3)
A Fear Beyond Escaping
630(4)
The Immigrant Survivors
634(5)
Epilogue: Questions upon Questions 639(10)
Acknowledgments 649(2)
Reference Notes 651(32)
Glossary of Yiddish Terms 683(2)
Bibliographical Notes 685(10)
Index 695

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