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The
Tenement Saga
The Lower East Side and
Early Jewish American Writers
Sanford Sternlicht
Terrace Books
"'Roots-gathering,' Jewish style!"—Sanford Pinsker, author of The Schlemiel
as Metaphor
Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and
children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924
and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New
York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells of his own childhood in this
vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen
early twentieth-century East Side writers who defined this new
"Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great
Jewish American novelists.
Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater,
secular
values, the struggle between generations, street crime, labor
unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He
documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants
blended into "The Golden Land."
Sanford Sternlicht, author of many books, including Student
Companion to Elie Wiesel and Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion,
is professor of English at Syracuse University. This book draws
upon Sternlicht's popular talks and lessons to students on field
trips to the Lower East Side, where they experience its sights,
sounds, history, and monuments (such as the famous Katz's Deli).
For more information contact
our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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October 2004
208 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-20480-4 Cloth $45.00 s
ISBN 0-299-20484-7 Paper $17.95
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