Word: yiddishkeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bedraggled and inspired" Jewish immigrants lost a heritage and found a home on New York's lower East Side. World of Our Fathers revitalizes what are by now the familiar details of the unspeakable slums of East Broadway, the feverish Jewish labor movement, the lively culture of Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish...
...immigrants through the Second World War, Howe writes, that "their visions and ambitions, the collective dream of Jewish fulfillment and the personal wish to improve the lot of their sons and daughters could be satisfied at the same time." In the ambitious second half of the book, Howe analyzes Yiddishkeit as the culture of the postponed decision. The "modernized" fiction of Yiddish culture grappled with universal themes of class struggle, personal relations and urban anomie as well as with the Jewish experience in eastern Europe. Uneasy Yiddish theater, trapped between the artistic aspirations of its playwrights and the communal experiences...
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