Irving Howe
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia,...
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Old age, they tell us, is not for sissies. Nevertheless, it is a territory that most of us can expect to enter and that, considering the alternative, we are usually willing to brave, however tentatively. Now, in this superb anthology, Wayne Booth, one of our most widely read and admired literary critics, offers us aid and comfort: the marvelous work of some of our greatest writers and poets on what growing older is really like, with a wonderful bonus...