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Daydreams and Nightmares: Expanded Edition Paperback - 2011
by Horowitz, Irving
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- Paperback
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Details
- Title Daydreams and Nightmares: Expanded Edition
- Author Horowitz, Irving
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2 Expanded
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 146
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2011
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1412845890I4N00
- ISBN 9781412845892 / 1412845890
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.32 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.81 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Jews - New York (State) - New York
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011023287
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the jacket flap
In the 1930s a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants still resided in predominantly black Harlem. As shopkeepers trying to make out a marginal existence, Harlem's Jews were a minority within a minority. Into this restricted world the author of this book was born. Irving Louis Horowitz's parents had fled Russia, his father the victim of persecution in the Tsarist army during World War I. The boy's schoolmates were the children of black sharecroppers who had immigrated to the North. Poverty, language, and culture all cut off the Horowitz family from traditional community life, and the stress of a survival existence led to the trauma of a deteriorating family unit.
Harlem and its environs, the Apollo and the Alhambra theaters, the Polo Grounds, and Central Park were the stage on which a youngster from this ghetto built a kind of self-reliance at the cost of social graces. The recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography, this new, augmented edition contains the author's reflection of the impact of the Great Depression on Harlem family life.
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 12/01/2011, Page 43