Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End tenement block, 1887-1920; History Workshop Series
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First edition. Original Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 3/4), pp. xviii, 301,indexed, illustrated with 28 b/w plates, foreward by Raphael Samuel. From DJ: "By talking to people who grew up in [Rothschild] Buildings in the 1890s and after, and using untapped documentary evidence from a wide range of public and private sources, the author re-creates in a unique richness of detail the life of that community and its relations with the economy and culture around it." As New in Fine (price-clipped) DJ. Item #1147
ISBN: 071000429X
Scarce. An interesting study in Jewish life in America from the late nineteenth century through 1920.
Price: $40.00
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