Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side (Documents in American Social History)

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In this appealing autobiography, Rose Cohen looks back on her circle of relatives’s journey from Tsarist Russia to New York City’s Lower East Side. Her account in their struggles and of her own coming of age in a complex new world vividly illustrates what was once, for some, the American experience. First published in 1918, Cohen’s narrative conveys a powerful sense of the aspirations and frustrations of an immigrant Jewish circle of relatives in an alien culture.

With uncommon frankness, Cohen reports her youthful impressions of day by day life within the tenements and of working conditions in garment sweatshops and domestic service. She introduces a big cast, including her co-workers, employers, mentors, members of the family, and friends. In simple yet moving terms, she recalls how, even as confronting setbacks resulting from poor health and dilemmas posed by courtship, she finds opportunities to teach herself. She also records the gradual weakening of her circle of relatives’s commitment to religion as they find their way from the shadow of poverty toward the mainstream of American life.

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