"The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews - Softcover

Birmingham, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493070673 ISBN 13: 9781493070671

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2023

Synopsis

The last in Stephen Birmingham’s trilogy of books recounting the immigration of European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how they succeeded in the New World. This one follows “Our Crowd” and The Grandees.

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About the Author

Stephen Birmingham (1929-2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham's work focuses on the upper class in America. He's written about the African American elite in Certain People and the prominent Jewish society in "Our Crowd" The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: The Story of America's Sephardic Elite, and "The Rest of Us" The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other nonfiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493070673
• ISBN 13: 9781493070671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410