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Author
Language
English
Description
For three generations, just about every Volk and Morgen has, no matter what the circumstances, exhibited a terrifyingly positive attitude. With a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of them--the tyrants, do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakes--lived at full tilt.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1967]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xi, 404 p. illus., facsim., geneal. tables (on lining papers), ports. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gripping novel of dark family secrets, bigotry, lust, and lies set in the world of the phenomenally wealthy The Liebling family is among the wealthiest in New York, but in the eyes of "old money" gentile aristocrats like the patrician Van Degans, they will always be lower-class Jewish nouveau riche-especially since it's common knowledge that patriarch Jules Liebling built the powerful Ingraham Corporation from the profits he made selling liquor...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird-Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film which traces four generations of Russ family history and the family's famed lox and herring emporium, Russ & Daughters, in New York City's Lower East Side. Featuring the life stories of 100-year old Hattie Russ Gold and her sister, 92-year-old Anne Russ Federman.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States. Seven years in the making, this documentary explores Hasidic homes, schools, and ceremonies.
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