Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side

Rose Cohen

Published by Cornell University Press 2015

Out of the Shadow

A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side

Rose Cohen
With contributions by: Thomas L. Dublin

In the series Documents in American Social History

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471438

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About this book

In this appealing autobiography, Rose Cohen looks back on her family's journey from Tsarist Russia to New York City's Lower East Side. Her account of their struggles and of her own coming of age in a complex new world vividly illustrates what was, 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 family in an alien culture.

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

Author / Editor information

Thomas Dublin is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His many books include Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, also from Cornell.

Reviews

Susan A. Glenn, author of Daughters of the Shtetl:

A little-known but powerful and moving account of Jewish immigrant life in turn-of-the-century America. It stands with the fiction of AnziaYezierska in beautifully illuminating the consciousness of an immigrant daughter struggling to reconcile the cultures of the old world and the new. Thomas Dublin has performed a remarkable service by bringing Cohen's work back into the light.

Out of the Shadow... remains the most sensitive and insightful first-person account of a particular immigrant experience.

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 34
- Images: 34
- Other: 12 drawings
Keywords: U.S. History; Biography & Autobiography; Womens Studies

eBook

Published: March 19, 2015
ISBN: 9780801471438