... Ba’al Shem Tov Jonas Sidney Marx Karl Meat boycotts Polish Jews Schwartz Cecilia New York Times Working class Economic depression of 1907 Socialist Party Unemployment Rent control Simkovitch Mary Wald Lillian Eastern Europe Lower East Side immigrant mothers and daughters socialism rent...

...This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1964 review of Call It Sleep, a novel by Henry Roth that chronicles the experiences of a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century. The boy, David Schearl, arrives in New York...

...This chapter is a rather bemused and somewhat condescending discussion of the phenomenon of “peripatetic philosophers”—Jewish intellectuals from the Lower East Side and other immigrant neighborhoods—soapboxing and demonstrating out on the streets, parks, and other public spaces. Their actions can...

...On December 26, 1968, a fight broke out at New York’s Fillmore East auditorium involving the rock band MC5 and the White Panther Party, the Lower East Side radical group Up against the Wall Motherfuckers (UAW/MF), and the promoter Bill Graham. The combatants at the Fillmore East, although they were...

...This chapter examines the relationship between the writing, performance, and sexuality of Nuyorican Poets Cafe co-founder Miguel Piñero alongside the contemporary changes to the demography and culture of the Lower East Side/Loisaida beginning with the 1970s. Specifically, chapter 1 argues...

...Explores some of the most persistent and powerful images of migrant arrival and settlement from the early 20th century connected to Jewish districts in the East End of London and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. These visual representations incorporate varying degrees of popular journalism...

... Jean Lower East Side counterculture defense proletariat Rockwell Norman state violence Black Mask’s direct action turn New Left “And Babies?” Art Workers Coalition Art Workers Coalition AWC Black Panther Party BPP Black radicalism civil rights movement Cleaver Eldridge Haeberle Ron...

...The Stanton Street Shul is one of the last remaining Jewish congregations on New York's historic Lower East Side. This narrow building wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement is full of clamorous voices—the generations of the dead who somehow contrive to make their presence known...

.... Neither do the Japanese students know that the Walgreen’s drugstore on the corner was until recently Astor Wines. Astor Place Hair Stylists Beats CBGB (club) East Ninth Street Greenmarkets Irish immigrants Lower East Side New School University Park Slope Seattle I think there are unbelievable...

...). Lower East Side Street Scene, ca. 1895, soon after the Beilin family arrived. Museum of the City of New York, Jacob A. Riis Collection. Example 1.3. “How About Me?” Berlin’s conception of musical theater grew from his experiences performing in the saloons of New York’s Lower East Side in the early...

... recounting Golden’s childhood on New York’s Lower East Side, the text points to his stint in prison as a young man, after a widely publicized conviction for investment fraud during the Great Depression, as the root of his empathy for the underdog in any story. During World War II, the cigar-smoking, bourbon...

... militants were reworking anticolonial theories of resistance to their own ends. By analyzing women's troubling experiences of the Lower East Side counterculture, particularly those of Judith Malina of The Living Theatre, a former Motherfucker, the editorial board of Women’s LibeRATion, and members...

... of the field and the club’s evolution in the Lower East Side scene of the 1970s, with promoter Hilly Kristal’s CBGB as a focal point. The subsequent sections analyze the corporatization of the rock club, focusing on the indie rock club concert theater developed by Michael Swier and the company the Bowery...

... was born. The chapter examines the fanciful stories Murray invented over the years, her attempt to place her beginnings in a setting of privilege and wealth. The chapter reveals a childhood that was spent in squalor and despair in the Lower East Side of New York City. It shows a childhood that was marred...

... Pants Brett Llewellyn Thomas Roland Popeye Politi Rolando Rassi Eric Rivera Edgar Roehm Diane Spagnuolo Peter Williams Erin Wrigley Maggie oral history Lower East Side biography archive squatters Tauno Biltsted, b. 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was raised by a Danish father and a Turkish...

... class mutual housing associations freedom Wrigley Maggie Coast Johnny gifts nature of inalienable property squatter past collective Dann Geoff property values National Cooperative Bank NCB Mendez Rosie Brandstein Howard cooperative development Huron Amanda Lower East Side Catholic Area...

...Chapter 7 follows a young Jewish immigrant, Minnie Goldstein, and her family as they make their way from Warsaw, Poland, to New York City’s Lower East Side in 1894. Based on her personal and autobiographic account of her life story in America, the chapter juxtaposes the girl’s memories of her...

... black homes as well as maternal deprivation attributed to inadequate mothers. It evaluates compensatory education programs developed in the early 1960s and then turns to Mobilization for Youth, a community action program active in the early and mid–1960s on Manhattan's Lower East Side. African Americans...

...This chapter explores the Mobilization for Youth (MFY), a social program aimed to assist Puerto Rican and African American male youths in achieving upward mobility and full inclusion in American society. MFY was conducted in the Lower East Side, a neighborhood inhabited by successive waves of poor...

... Diner Hasia R Jews Paar Jack Popular culture Whitfield Stephen J Yiddishkeit Brown v Board of Education Golden Harry—social activism Kennedy John F Sandburg Carl Vietnam War Civil rights movement Hall Jacquelyn Dowd Harry Golden segregation African American Jews Lower East Side New York...