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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
The Rest of Us The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews Author:Stephen Birmingham THE REST OF US is the third panel of Stephen Birmingham's Jewish triptych (OUR CROWD and THE GRANDEES)--the story of Eastern European Jews who, between 1882 and 1915, thronged into New York to escape the pogroms of czarist Russia. — From Ellis Island, these immigrants poured into the Lower East Side. To established German Jews, this horde was... more » an embarassment and a burden. But the Russians had a passion to succeed and soon they stood on their own.
They made it in an astonishingly short time--from the pushcarts of Hester Street to the Grand Concourse and on to the manicured lawns of Scarsdale and Beverly Hills, "from Poland to polo in one generation."« less