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Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Spewack, Bella (Author), Limmer, Ruth (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 1558611533     ISBN-13: 9781558611535
Publisher: Feminist Press
OUR PRICE: $16.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1996
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Annotation: Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived with her mother on the streets of New York's Lower East Side in 1902 when she was three years old. At twenty-three, while working as a reporter in Berlin, she wrote this memoir of her early years. After returning to the United States, Bella and her husband, Sam Spewack, became successful playwrights, most notably for the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate.

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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
LCCN: 95013874
Series: Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.52" W x 8.49" L (0.62 lbs) 180 pages
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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"A startling, clear-eyed" memoir of an immigrant girl's childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate (Booklist).

Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was never published. More than seventy years later, the publication of Streets recovers a remarkable voice and offers a vivid chronicle of a lost world.

Bella, who went on to a brilliant career write for stage and screen with her husband Sam, describes the sights, sounds, and characters of urban Jewish immigrant life after the turn of the century. Witty, street-smart, and unsentimental, Bella was a genuine American heroine who displays in this memoir "a triumph of will and spirit" (The Jewish Week).
 
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