Rivington Street: a novelUniversity of Illinois Press, 2001 - 431 pagini This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background to go to work for the Jewish Daily Forward. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, Meredith Tax draws the reader irresistibly into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century. An absorbing, epic novel, Rivington Street is also suitable for use as a classroom text. |
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NOT LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER | 17 |
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON | 73 |
THE JOY OF THE STRUGGLE | 145 |
TEMPERED IN THE FIRE | 213 |
IF NOT NOW WHEN? | 289 |
THE BRIGHT FUTURE | 361 |
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