{"product_id":"world-of-our-fathers-the-journey-of-the-east-european-jews-to-america-and-the-life-they-found-and-made-9780814736852","title":"World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award, 1976\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld of Our Fathers\u003c\/b\u003e traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrving Howe (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIrving Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Best known for \u003ci\u003eWorld of Our Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism. He was the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e, the journal he edited for nearly forty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorris Dickstein (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMorris Dickstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eLeopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514563793170,"sku":"9780814736852","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a5973c4-6039-484e-a591-f1ec30ce4708.jpg?v=1730987246","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/world-of-our-fathers-the-journey-of-the-east-european-jews-to-america-and-the-life-they-found-and-made-9780814736852","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}