American Jewish History, March 1st, 1997
The Lower East Side in New York has been the concrete manifestation of Jewish cultural construct in the 1920s and 1930s taken in an American context. The life in the Lower East Side has demonstrated the history in the identity transformation of American Jews to Jewish American. It has acted as the primary site of evolving Jewish culture while establishing Jewish identity in America.
In 1927, the Jewish Daily Forward, America's leading Yiddish newspaper, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a retrospective of Jewish life on the Lower East Side. As the newspaper measured its own progress a...
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