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Rivington Street
Rivington Street
Author: Meredith Tax
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 R...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380709076
ISBN-10: 0380709074
Publication Date: 1/1990
Edition: Reprint
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5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Avon Books (Mm)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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TakingTime avatar reviewed Rivington Street on + 1072 more book reviews
The followed their hearts to a golden land of promise.. and despair... and hope.
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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.
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easy read, good book
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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.


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