A Lower East Side Vacation (1903)
A Lower East Side Vacation (1903)
This chapter narrates the discourses of a fictional character named Keidansky, by journalist and activist Bernard Richards, as part of a series that originally ran in the Boston Evening Transcript and later appeared in book form. The Jewish intellectual had already become a familiar type in writings about immigrant life, but Richards brought a rare insiders' perspective to the English-reading audience. In this sketch, Keidansky describes his “vacation” in New York's East Side, borne out of a restless yearning for a change of pace from his usual haunts in Boston. To him, New York is a place of change; he also considers it “the refuge of all radicals, revolutionaries, and good people whom the wicked old world has cast out.”
Keywords: Keidansky, Bernard Richards, Jewish intellectual, East Side, New York, immigrant life
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