Title & Author:

Portal to America : the Lower East Side, 1870-1925 / Allon Schoener, compiler.

Edition:

[First edition].

Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]

Description:

256 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes material from the exhibition, The Lower East Side: portal to American life, 1870-1924, held at the Jewish Museum in 1966.
Immigration. I discover America, Abraham Cahan (The rise of David Levinsky) ; The history of American immigration, The New York Times, January 31, 1897 ; Ellis Island, new buildings, The New York Times, December 3, 1900 ; Influx of Jewish immigrants, Evening Post, January 7, 1905 ; Are we facing in immigration peril?, The New York Times, January 29, 1905-- The street. The ghetto market, Hester Street, The New York Times, November 14, 1897 ; East Side Street vendors, The New York Times, July 30, 1893 ; Thursday in Hester Street, New York Tribune, September 15, 1898 ; The delights of haggling, New York Tribune, July 28, 1901 ; Streets buried in filth, The New York Times, March 6, 1893 ; Hester Street enjoys a bath, The New York Times, August 15, 1893 ; Preaching Christ to angry Jews, Evening Post, June17, 1899 ; Rowdies annoy Jews, New York Tribune, October 2, 1905 ; 50,000 marchers mourn Kishinev massacre, Evening Post, December 4, 1905 ; Playgrounds of asphalt, New York Tribune, July 5, 1896 -- Adaptation. Rush to be naturalized, Evening Post, August 7, 1900 ; Religious life, New York Tribune, August 16, 1903 ; A school for Hebrew, New York Tribune, November 12, 1899 ; When the shofar blows, Evening Post, September 25, 1897 ; Killing for kosher meat, Evening Post, June 26, 1897 ; The Passover bread, New York Tribune, April 20, 1902 ; Orthodox inconvenient, New York Tribune, October 15, 1905 ; Shadchens find business bad, New York Tribune, September 30, 1900 ; Going under the chupah, New York Tribune, January 9, 1898 ; Buying a doctor, New York Tribune, June 30, 1901 ; Keeping in style, New York Tribune, August 26, 1900 ; New names for East Siders, New York Tribune, July 3, 1898 ; The East Side boy, New York Tribune, September 2, 1900 ; East Side love of learning, New York Tribune, September 18, 1898 ; Citizens in the making, Evening Post, January 10, 1903 ; The largest public school in the world, New York Tribune, September 16, 1906 ; East Side women stone schoolhouses, New York Tribune, June 28, 1906 ; Jew babes at the library, Evening Post, October 3, 1903 ; The University Settlement's work, The New York Times, November 25, 1900 ; The candy store--a new social center / New York Tribune April 22, 1900 ; In the East Side cafes, New York Tribune, September 30, 1900 ; Yiddish theater, Hutchins Hapgood (The spirit of the ghetto) -- Work. Sweatshop girl tailors, New York Tribune, June 18, 1897 ; Socialists parade on May Day, The New York Times, May 2, 1897 ; Contractor at center of the sweating system, John R. Commons (U.S. Industrial Commission, Reports, 1901) ; "60,000 children in sweatshops," Edwin Markham, Cosmopolitan Mag., Jan. 1907 ; Governor Roosevelt visits sweatshops, The New York Times, June 6, 1900 ; 13,000 tailors on strike, The New York Times, July 29, 1895 ; Police club strikers, New York Tribune, August 10, 1905 ; "Task work bowing to factory system," Ernest Poole, The Outlook, Nov. 21, 1903 ; The Triangle fire, New York World, March 26, 1911 -- Residence. Lillian Wald's new case notes, July 7, 1893 ; For better tenements, The New York Times, January 18, 1895 ; Landlords permit wickedness to flourish, New York Tribune, November 25, 1900 ; Changes on the East Side, The New York Times, July 9, 1899 ; Slums that once were, New York Tribune, July 30, 1899 -- Bintel briefs (Jewish Daily Forward). Your constant reader, February 27, 1906 ; The Russian mother, February 8, 1906 ; Youah Mednikoff, March 6, 1906 ; Joseph Thest, January 20, 1906 ; Kaufman Ongel, February 22, 1906 ; Anonymous, February 4, 1906 ; A despondent son-in-law, April 1, 1906 ; An unhappy father, March 22, 1906 ; Your reade, S.G., February 6, 1906 ; Raphael Kislikoff February 13, 1906 ; The troubled mother, February 5, 1906 ; The woman's husband, March 27, 1906 ; The peculair daughter, March 9, 1906 ; Gussie Frug, February 2, 1906 ; G.R., March 22, 1906 ; Hyman Frumkin, February 20, 1906 ; Trilby, February 26, 1906 ; An unfortunate woman, February 15, 1906 ; The unhappy father, March 15, 1906 ; Rose Eisenberg, March 13, 1906 ; B. Silberstieg, February 11, 1906.

Subject:

Jews New York (State) New York History Sources.
Juifs New York (État) New York Histoire Sources.
Jews
Jews New York (State) New York History.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) History Sources.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Congress
Sources.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Schoener, Allon, compiler.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.). Lower East Side.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 1746
Call No.: ID:87-B19340
Status: Available