Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925. Elizabeth EwenCheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Kathy PeissFamily Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940. Judith E. Smith

Signs ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-181
Author(s):  
Susan Porter Benson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
Jewish Immigrant ◽  
East Side ◽  
History Of

Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenyon Zimmer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
Jewish Immigrant ◽  
East Side

Though virtually unknown today among anarchists and historians alike, Russian Jewish immigrant Saul Yanovsky helped to found Yiddish-speaking anarchist movements in both England and the United States, edited the most widely circulated anarchist newspaper in American history, and was the single most important figure of turn-of-the-century Jewish anarchism. He was a prominent and controversial figure in the Yiddish-speaking world of the Lower East Side, and played no small role in building that world. This essay, relying primarily on Yiddish-language sources, traces the life and influence of this once revered (and reviled) figure. His story is indispensable to our understanding of both anarchism and Yiddish culture in New York’s Lower East Side.

Social Reality of the Drug Problem: New York's Lower East Side

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Clayton Hartjen ◽  
Richard Quinney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Service Agencies

The scope and nature of social problems are frequently a creation of the various organizations and agencies established to deal with some aspect of community concern. The "educational" and other activities of these groups can be seen as attempts at reality construction. Regarding these efforts, this study examined the kind and effectiveness of drug addiction programs sponsored by social service agencies in New York City's Lower East Side and found them to be wanting. The absence of drug programs and the inability of these agencies to effectively carry out projects of this (and any other) kind appears to be a consequence of the funding structure and the existence of conflict between agencies. It is argued, however, that these agencies can serve as a principal base from which community control over and ultimately any just solution to the drug problem may be initiated.

scholarly journals Balancing Memory and Material at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Gabrielle A. Berlinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
A Site

Abstract: Founded in a nationally landmarked apartment building on the ever-gentrifying Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is an historic site of immigrant social history and material culture. Constructed in 1864 and occupied by over 7,000 immigrants until its closing in 1935, this building has withstood constantly rising visitorship each year since its opening as a museum in 1988. With apartment spaces restored for the public to explore without roped-off restriction, this time capsule of domestic immigrant life requires continual maintenance to preserve its historic physical fabric. Through interviews with the Museum staff and the Preservation Advisory Committee (conservators, architectural historians, curators), as well as documentation of technical processes carried out in the preservation process, this ethnographic study investigates the questions and compromises that arise in the preservation of the tangible and intangible heritage contained within an historic structure in constant use. Which narratives are reconstructed through the Museum’s decisions to restore certain material features of the building while allowing others to decay? What are best practices for interpretation and preservation when a museum’s success results in the gradual destruction of its main artifact (the building) through use? This study explores the intersection of museum mission and practice, heritage construction, and historic preservation at a site both sustained and destroyed by its increasing success.

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