Posts Tagged: Jewish tenements
Anzia Yezierska: The Tenement House ‘Cinderella’
Applied to American Jews, the “white privilege” concept oversimplifies and misstates a complicated history. Anzia Yezierska -- once romanticized by Hollywood publicists as America’s "Cinderella of...
How American Jews Championed Righteous Social Change
The years before America’s entry into World War I were an age of progressive reform. In 1912, socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs garnered 6% of...
