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COWARD-MCCANN. Hardcover. USED Good. price clipped jacket.

Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in Fine Lavende/White boards with DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear as shown. Reinforced chipping at head/heel of spine.Mrs. Manners neatly covers a major base left untended by Birmingham (but not by more scholarly others) -- the effect on German and Sephardic American Jews of the explosive entry and adjustments of two million East European Jews who came to this country in the late 19th century. The author, with the humorous, caustic accuracy of Yiddish, calls this response a symptom of the tsitterdik syndrome -- a wary nervousness brought on by the contemplation of the "unenlightened, indigent, badly dressed and Medieval" flood in successive waves of immigration. Led by substantial and responsible city lights like Jacob Schiff and Louis Marshall, the "uptown" cousins moved to the aid of the newcomers. They coaxed, lectured, organized, generously offered leadership and financial help. But sometimes their efforts… Leer más