Rivington Street : A NOVEL
by
Meredith Tax
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0252070321
ISBN-13
9780252070327
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 12th, 2001
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
626 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Historical fiction
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This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, this work draws the reader into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century.
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.
An absorbing, epic novel, Rivington Street is also suitable for use as a classroom text.
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