'The Rest of Us.' The rise of America's Eastern European Jews

by BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN

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Book desription: Boston: Little Brown & Co. ,. 1984. Hard Cover. 392 pages, 8 plates, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the dj, 'In two previous best-sellers, Stephen Birmingham explored two fascinating segments of American Jewish life: Our Crowd dealt with the great German-Jewish families of New York banking and retailing: The Grandees studied the ancestor-proud ways of America's Sephardic Jews. The Rest of Us is the third andperhaps the most compelling panel of Birmingham's Jewish triptych - the story of the Eastern European Jews who, between 1882 and 1915, thronged into New York Harbor to escape the savae pogroms of czarist Russia, and who stayed to prosper in the New World...here are the extraordinary success stories of an ex-newboy named David Sarnoff; a glove salesman named Louis B. Mayer, a bartender named Samuel Bronfman; a girl from the Krakow ghetto named Helena Rubinstein; a builder of skyscrapers named Emery Roth; a singing waiter named Irving Berling; a fashion designer named Ralph (Lifschitz) Lauren..here too is the poignant story of Rose Pastor Stokes, the 'Jewish Cinderella' who became a fiery socialist, as well as the tale of Meyer Lansky, the 'Mastermind of Crime,' who died one of America's richest men, and against whom no serious crime was ever proved.' .

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