{"product_id":"unfinished-people-eastern-european-jews-encounter-america","title":"Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Gay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York. Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Within two generations, these newcomers settled and prospered in the densely populated Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods of New York City. Against this backdrop, Ruth Gay narrates their rarely told story―a unique and vibrant portrait of a people in their daily trials and rituals―bringing alive the vitality of the streets, markets, schools, synagogues, and tenement halls where a new version of America was invented in the 1920s and 1930s. An intimate, unforgettable account, Unfinished People is a singular act of expressing in words the richly textured lives of a resilient people. \"A touching and funny evocation...marvelous in its detail.... This is history as day-to-day living―irrevocable and unforgotten.\"―Alfred Kazin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctober 17, 2001 by W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ Paperback \/ Ruth Gay","offer_id":51157891678506,"sku":"9780393322408","price":33.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/2889733.jpg?v=1771245199","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/unfinished-people-eastern-european-jews-encounter-america","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}