Rivington Street: a novel

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University of Illinois Press, 2001 - Fiction - 431 pages
This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background to go to work for the Jewish Daily Forward. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, Meredith Tax draws the reader irresistibly into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century.

An absorbing, epic novel, Rivington Street is also suitable for use as a classroom text.

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NOT LIKE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
17
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
73
THE JOY OF THE STRUGGLE
145
TEMPERED IN THE FIRE
213
IF NOT NOW WHEN?
289
THE BRIGHT FUTURE
361
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