Rivington Street

by Meredith Tax

Book Overview

This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070321
• ISBN13: 9780252070327
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"