Film, Video The Tenement Saga
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Title
- The Tenement Saga
Summary
- Sanford Sternlicht discussed his book, "The Tenement Saga." He tells the story of his own childhood in New York City's Lower East Side and puts it within the context of 14 early 20th-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, Henry Roth and others defined this new "Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists.
Names
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-05-19.
Headings
- - Biography, History
- - Culture, Performing Arts
- - Literature
Notes
- - Classification: History: America.
- - Classification: Language and Literature.
- - Classification: Social Sciences.
- - Sanford Sternlicht.
- - Recorded on 2014-05-19.
- - Kids, Families.
- - Librarians, Archivists.
- - Researchers.
- - Teachers.
Medium
- 1 online resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021689426
Online Format
- video
- image
- online text