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Deborah HopkinsonPublication Details
Book1st edOrchard Books2003Availability
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Acclaimed author Hopkinson recounts the lives of five immigrants to New York’s Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century
Contents
- Coming to the golden land
- Tenements: shutting out the sky
- Settling in: greenhorns and boarders
- Everyone worked on
- On the streets: pushcarts, pickles, and play
- A new language, a new life
- Looking to the future: will it ever be different?
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- 0439375908
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