The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl
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In The Messiah Comes Tomorrow, veteran journalist Alan Lupo recounts the stories of working-class Jews, both those he grew up with in Boston and those he interviewed elsewhere over four decades. "For too long now," he writes, "the perception of Jews in America is that of an upper-middle-class people engaged mainly in 'the professions' and rarely doing the dirty work. Thanks to the clich s of modern literature and film, the Jew is seen as a kvetch,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1558492836
ISBN13:9781558492837
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:144 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 9.3"
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