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Book SynopsisFor more than a century, the Lower East Side of New York City has been recognised and scrutinised as having been the largest and most vibrant immigrant Jewish neighbourhood in America when East European Jews flocked to American shores. This book explores the dynamics of Lower East Side memory.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction — Remembering the Lower East Side: A Conversation Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger
Part 1. The Dynamics of Remembrance
1. On the Onomastics of the Lower East Side, or How the Lower East Side Got Its Name Moses Rischin
2. Photographing the Lower East Side: A Century's Work Deborah Dash Moore and David Lobenstine
3. Beyond Place and Ethnicity: The Uses of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Paula Hyman
4. The Ghetto Girl and the Erasure of Memory Riv-Ellen Prell
5. Constructions of Memory: The Synagogues of the Lower East Side David Kaufman
6. The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side Stephan Brumberg
7. Recreating Recreations on the Jewish Lower East Side: Restaurants, Cabarets, Cafes and Coffeehouses in the 1930s Suzanne Wasserman
Part 2. Contemporary Recollections
8. Turfing the Slum: New York City's Tenement Museum and the Poltics of Heritage Jack Kugelmass
9. "Send a salami to your boy in the army": Sites of Jewish Memory and Identity at Lower East Side Restaurants Eve Jochnowitz
10. Tripping down Memory Lane: Walking Tours on the Jewish Lower East Side Seth Kamil
11. The Lower East Side in the Memory of New York Jewish Intellectuals: A Filmmaker's Experience Joseph Dorman
12. Performing Memory: "The Matzoh Factory" on the Lower East Side Aviva Weintraub
13. Translating Abraham Cahan, Teaching the Lower East Side: A View from Italy Mario Maffi
Contributors
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