Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side
- ISBN-10
- 1936932121
- ISBN-13
- 9781936932122
- Series
- Streets
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at CUNY
- Author
- Bella Spewack
Description
“A startling, clear-eyed” memoir of an immigrant girl’s childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate (Booklist). Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was never published. More than seventy years later, the publication of Streets recovers a remarkable voice and offers a vivid chronicle of a lost world. Bella, who went on to a brilliant career write for stage and screen with her husband Sam, describes the sights, sounds, and characters of urban Jewish immigrant life after the turn of the century. Witty, street-smart, and unsentimental, Bella was a genuine American heroine who displays in this memoir “a triumph of will and spirit” (The Jewish Week).
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Other editions
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- 1992
- 119 pages
- Paperback
- Silk Road International Publishers & Distributors
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