Pushcarts and Dreamers: Stories of Jewish Life in America

Two million Jews emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe between 1890-1920. The large majority passed through Ellis Island and settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. They struggled to create a new life for themselves—among the tenements, inside the sweatshops, behind the pushcarts—as they dreamed and worked for a more just and compassionate world. Pushcarts and Dreams is a collection of Yiddish stories written in the United States by authors who were themselves part of this…