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The Free Thinkers

Stories of the New World

ISBN-13: 9781583220252

Contributor(s): Silbert Layle

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 26-06-2000

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£19.99

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About the book

Layle Silbert's stories, like those of Grace Paley or Tillie Olson, trace the life lines of struggles and joys overlooked - familiar lives led in a time now past. In this collection Silbert gives these lost lives a new voice, describing in exacting detail the world of Eastern European Jews newly arrived in turn-of-the-century-America. She chronicles their arrival in the New Worlds of Chicago and New York, follows them as they trade Yiddish and Russian for English, find work in factories and Jewish newspapers, attend meetings and struggle toward the promise of freedom.

The Free Thinkers

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