The followed their hearts to a golden land of promise.. and despair... and hope.
Rivington Street is truly an epic novel depicting the plight of Russian Jews in Russia and their journey to NYC. It illusrates their lives in NYC, their struggle to adapt, and the horrors of working in sweatshops. It's hard these days to even comprehend what a factory garment worker had to endure to scratch out a truly meager wage.
Meredith Tax writes in a fluid and compelling manner. For me, the book was impossible to put down bcause I couldn't wait to find out what each character would do next.
If you love historical fiction, please read it...you won't regret it.
Meredith Tax writes in a fluid and compelling manner. For me, the book was impossible to put down bcause I couldn't wait to find out what each character would do next.
If you love historical fiction, please read it...you won't regret it.
A novel about four Jewish women and the spectrum of Jewish life in New York, from the infamous triangle factory and the low bowery dives to the dazzling spendor of Berliners Department Store on Fifth Avenue. It is also about America in the years before WWI, about suffrage and labor- the two great movements that were sweeping the country- and about the people who were involved in them.
