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Bright star of exile: Jacob Adler and the Yiddish theatre
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ISBN: 0214205908 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Barrie & Jenkins

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Bright star of exile : Jacob Adler and the Yiddish theatre
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ISBN: 0690014465 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York : Crowell,

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Parting at the Crossroads : The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada
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ISBN: 0691221286 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previously neglected query so interestingly that her book will hold the attention of anyone concerned with health care in either country or both. The author explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada, from the emergence of health care as a political issue in the 1930s to the passage of federal health insurance legislation in the 1960s. Focusing on how political institutions influence policy development, she shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance. Meanwhile, the constraints of the U.S. political system forced health care reformers to temper their own ideas to appeal to a wide coalition within the Democratic party. Even readers previously unfamiliar with Canadian politics will find in this book important clues about the "realm of the possible" in the uncertain future of U.S. health care.

Lower East Side Memories : A Jewish Place in America
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ISBN: 0691007470 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford, England : Princeton University Press,

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Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.

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Immigrants --- Jews --- Social life and customs --- Intellectual life --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- LES (New York, N.Y.) --- Nyu Yorḳ (State) --- NYS --- Niyū Yūrk (State) --- Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork (State) --- Shtat Nʹi︠u︡ Ĭork --- State of New York --- State of N. York --- NY (State) --- N.Y. (State) --- N. York (State) --- نيويورك (State) --- ولاية نيويورك --- Wilāyat Niyū Yūrk --- Штат Нью-Ёрк --- Нью-Ёрк (State) --- Ню Йорк (State) --- Nova York (State) --- С̧ӗнӗ Йорк (State) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (State) --- Efrog Newydd (State) --- Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá Hahoodzo --- Nííyóó Hahoodzo --- New Yorgi osariik --- Νέα Υόρκη (State) --- Nea Yorkē (State) --- Πολιτεία της Νέας Υόρκης --- Politeia tēs Neas Yorkēs --- Nueva York (State) --- Estado de Nueva York --- Nov-Jorkio --- Ŝtato de Nov-Jorkio --- État de New York --- Nua-Eabhrac (State) --- York Noa (State) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (State) --- Estado de Nova York --- Néu-Yok (State) --- Шин Йорк (State) --- Shin Ĭork (State) --- 뉴욕 주 --- Nyuyok-ju --- 뉴욕 (State) --- Nyuyok (State) --- Nuioka (State) --- Nú Yọk (State) --- Tchiaq York (State) --- New York Isifunda --- New York-fylki --- ניו יורק (State) --- מדינת ניו יורק --- Medinat Nyu Yorḳ --- Stat Evrek Nowydh --- Evrek Nowydh (State) --- Nou Yòk (State) --- Novum Eboracum (State) --- N̦ujorka (State) --- Niujorko valstija --- Niujorkas (State) --- Niorche (State) --- Њујорк (State) --- Njujork (State) --- Yancuīc York (State) --- ニューヨーク州 --- Nyū Yōku-shū --- ニューヨーク (State) --- Nyū Yōku (State) --- New York (Colony) --- Ethnic relations. --- Adler, Jacob. --- Aleichem, Sholem. --- American Vaudeville Theater. --- Baker, Zachary. --- Bible/Biblical. --- Café Metropole. --- Cahan, Abraham. --- Crossing Delancey. --- Current Literature. --- Diamond, Neil. --- Dissent. --- Eastern Europe. --- Eldridge Street Project. --- Ellis Island. --- Esther-Khaye. --- Forward. --- Franklin, Benjamin. --- Glackens, William. --- Goldreich, Gloria. --- Gropper, William. --- Hapgood, Hutchins. --- Humoresque. --- Industrial Removal Office. --- Jerusalem. --- Kelley, Florence. --- Levine, Lawrence. --- Lincoln, Abraham. --- Margolin, Elias. --- Mayflower. --- Raphaelson, Samuel. --- Rischin, Moses. --- Sanders, Ronald. --- Tenement Museum. --- The Jazz Singer. --- Uncle Moses. --- World War II/Holocaust. --- Yezierska, Anzia. --- Yiddish theater. --- Zagajewski, Adam. --- Zueblin, Charles. --- anti-Semitism. --- booksellers. --- business. --- food. --- garment industry. --- history. --- journalism. --- philanthropy. --- pogroms. --- settlement houses. --- summer camps. --- East Side, Lower (New York, N.Y.) --- Imigranci --- Żydzi --- obyczaje i zwyczaje --- życie intelektualne --- Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone) --- stosunki międzyetniczne.

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