Rivington Street
by Meredith Tax
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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 to go to work for the Jewish Daily show more Forward. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, Meredith Tax draws the reader irresistibly into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century. An absorbing, epic novel, "Rivington Street" is also suitable for use as a classroom text. show lessTags
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Meredith Tax is a writer and political activist. Author, most recently, of Double Binds: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights, she was founding president of Women's World, a global free speech network of feminist writers, and cofounder of the PEN American Center's Women's Committee and the International PEN Women show more Writers' Committee. She is currently board chair of the Centre for Secular Space and lives in New York. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1982
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
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- 98
- Popularity
- 328,171
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- (3.70)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 3
