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Better Than Gold: An Immigrant Family's First Years in Brooklyn

by Fannie Silver · 1997

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Stories on the Jewish immigrant experience in 1910s New York featuring the Rosensteins, a family of six children. The stories illustrate the role of home as a refuge from the dog-eat-dog world outside.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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immigrationimmigrationMore like thisLess of thisJewishJewishMore like thisLess of this
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New YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisNew York StateNew York StateMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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