Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side 1558611150, 9781558611153

Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America 9780691221700

Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-America

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Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side 9780823279289

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and

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Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side 9780691207698

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning N

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The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement 9781479801374

Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society O

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Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side 9781101606186, 9780670781562, 9780143125051, 2012027178, 1101606185

"It is my honor to introduce these pages--so gravelly, so straggly, so hopeful, bright, and true." --Elizabeth

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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side 0823239004, 9780823239009

This lively ethnography traces a fraught three months in the life of a Jewish congregation stubbornly persisting on the

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How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images 9781400889242

How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed a

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The Other Side: A Memoir of a Young German Girl on the Other Side of War

Although urged by friends this has taken me years to write. It is all long ago now, and I think it is time we put the wa

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The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers 9780299204808, 9780299204839, 9780299204846

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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s 9780520936430

This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry s

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