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 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 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. |
Additional Information |
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" (0.62 lbs) 180 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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). |