World of Our Fathers

A classic exploration of the American Jewish experience by one of our greatest twentieth-century intellectuals
Winner of the National Book Award, 1976
World of Our Fathers traces the journeys of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.
This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a paperback edition, which includes a foreword by the noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.

Irving Howe (Author)
Irving Howe (1920-1993) played a pivotal role in American intellectual life for over five decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Best known for World of Our Fathers, Howe also won acclaim for his prodigious output of illuminating essays on American culture and as an indefatigable promoter of democratic socialism. He was the founding editor of Dissent, the journal he edited for nearly forty years.
Morris Dickstein (Foreword by)
Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970

"Praise for World of Our Fathers "World of Our Fathers is a book for Jew and non-Jew, for immigrants and nativeborn Americans. It is a book for all people." - Chicago Tribune Book World "Irving Howe has written a great book... a marvelous narrative." - The New York Times Book Review"