Rose cohen out of the shadow
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Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
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by Rose Cohen with Introduction by Thomas Dublin
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0801482682
Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side was written by Rose Cohen, another relatively anonymous Jewish woman who also believed that her personal story was worth preserving.
Rose cohen out of the shadow
Cohen's first-hand account of tenement life and sweatshop labor on the Lower East Side, replete with generational and interreligious conflicts, sheds light on the immigrant generation's heartaches and longings.
Discussion Questions
- How is Rose Gollup (then Cohen) made aware of her Jewishness in the Pale of Settlement?
On the Lower East Side? Why does she observe of life on the Lower East Side that "on the whole we were still in our village in Russia?" How does her Jewishness evolve over the course of time?
- Starting life in