"The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews - Softcover

Birmingham, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493070673 ISBN 13: 9781493070671

Verlag: Lyons Press, 2023

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The last addition to Stephen Birmingham’s historical trilogy, following "Our Crowd" and The Grandees, "The Rest of Us" recounts the immigration of Eastern European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Birmingham spotlights the successes of several of these famous immigrants, including Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubinstein, and Irving Berlin.

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Stephen Birmingham (1929–2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham’s work focuses on the upper class in America. He’s written about the African American elite in Certain People and the prominent Jewish society in "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: The Story of America’s Sephardic Elite, and "The Rest of Us": The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other nonfiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address.

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• Verlag: Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1493070673
• ISBN 13: 9781493070671
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 410
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