The Spirit of the Ghetto (Belknap Press) - Couverture souple

Hapgood, Hutchins

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674832663 ISBN 13 : 9780674832664

Editeur : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967

Synopsis

First published in 1902, and illustrated by Jacob Epstein, this evocation of the spiritual and cultural life of Yiddish New York remains fresh and relevant, and an invaluable commentary on one aspect of the formation of modern America.

To an extent unequaled by any outsider before him, Hutchins Hapgood, a descendant of generations of New England Yankees, succeeded in penetrating the inner life of an American immigrant community. Hapgood did not set out to reform and cleanse the ghetto. His aim was to understand and interpret it, to find and know its poets, scholars, dramatists, actors, and artists, as well as its merchants and businessmen. He presents real people, individually identified and described, working out their destiny as part of a vital Jewish world. The sensibility and intentions of this book, as the editor points out, "anticipated a period of unexampled American artistic and intellectual gusto and creativity." Moses Rischin's discerning and affectionate introduction places Hapgood's neglected classic squarely in the mainstream of American cultural development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674832663
• ISBN 13: 9780674832664
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Epstein
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Rischin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible