...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...

... Smith and Franklin Roosevelt to reveal how the Irish and the Jews of the Lower East Side came together in the early twentieth century thanks to Al Smith and his Jewish advisers. The reforms they supported foreshadowed policies FDR would embrace as president. Anglo Irish Treaty Boland Harry Collins...

...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...

...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...