Download or read book Up from Orchard Street written by Eleanor Widmer and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York’s legendary Lower East Side. Up from Orchard Street... ...where three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat at number 12. Long-widowed Manya is the family’s head and its heart: mother of dapper Jack, mother-in-law of frail and beautiful Lil, and adored bubby of Elka and Willy. She’s renowned throughout the teeming neighborhood for her mouthwatering cooking, and every noontime the front room of the flat turns into Manya’s private restaurant, where the local merchants come to savor her hearty stews and soups, succulent potato latkes and tzimmes, preserved fruits and glorious pastries. She is just as renowned for her fierce sense of honor, her quick eye for charlatans, and her generosity to those in need. But Manya is no soft touch–except, perhaps, where her adored granddaughter Elka is concerned. It is skinny, precocious Elka who is her closest companion and confidante–and the narrator of this event-packed novel. Through Elka’s eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who come in and out of the Roths’ lives: relatives, eccentric locals, doctors, busybody neighbors–as well as the many men who try fruitlessly to win voluptuous Manya’s favors. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. Money may have been short but opinions were not, and their tart tongues and lively humor invest every page. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience: a novel at once wise, funny, poignant, anguishing, exultant–and bursting with love.
Download or read book Back to Orchard Street written by Jacqueline Vater Warner and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave, a twelve-year-old student in a Christian school, begins summer vacation with problems that make him worry all summer. Will his mom find a job? Will the family have enough money to live on? Dave becomes sick before school starts. Will he recover in time for basketball tryouts? Will he have to leave Orchard Street School and go to public school? When it comes to Dave’s job, he also wonders how he should spend his money. Readers will wonder why Dave is such a worrier! This is the third chapter in the Orchard Street Gang series.
Download or read book The House on Orchard Street written by George Simonis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recollections of a young boy's life and times seen through his mind's eye. Also an examination of "Life" and "Time," and the intermix of the two.
Download or read book The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street written by Susan Jane Gilman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.
Download or read book Adventures of the Orchard Street Gang written by Jacqueline Vater Warner and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jacqueline Vater Warner taught many years at a Christian school. Adventures of the Orchard Street Gang is based on a composite of some of her former students. In this fun children's story, we follow twelve-year-old Dave from his first day of school and on various school activities, including visiting the space museum and holding fund raisers. Dave and his friends go to a small school, where he and his eleven classmates are like a big happy family. They have a lot of fun times during the year, some amusing, some sad, some exciting. The tale ends with the end-of-the-year awards night. This is the first in a series of books about the Orchard Street Kids.
Download or read book Orchard Street written by Maurice Gee and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no street like Orchard Street, and no year like 1951. So much happened to me and my family, and to Teresa and hers, that our lives could never be the same. Some very strange things are happening in Orchard Street. Ossie's dad is doing something illegal under the house; everyone is talking about the waterfront strike; adults are behaving in odd ways towards each other - and Ossie is falling in love. As he moves out of the safety zone of childhood, Ossie begins to understand that life will never be predictable again. Also available as an eBook
Download or read book Real Estate Forms written by Robert F. Thorley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rites of Return written by Marianne Hirsch and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States, Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the popularity of roots-seeking journeys, organized trauma tourism at sites of atrocity and new Museums of Conscience, and profound connections between social rites and political and legal rights of return. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University; Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College; Elazar Barkan, Columbia University; Svetlana Boym, Harvard University; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Amira Hass, journalist; Jarrod Hayes, University of Michigan; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University; Eva Hoffman, writer; Margaret Homans, Yale University; Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University; Daniel Mendelsohn, writer; Susan Meiselas, photographer; Nancy K. Miller, CUNY Graduate Center; Alondra Nelson, Columbia University; Jay Prosser, University of Leeds; Liz Sevchenko, Coalition of Museums of Conscience; Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College; Marita Sturken New York University; Diana Taylor, New York University; Patricia J. Williams, Columbia University
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin written by Wisconsin. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Common Council written by Grand Rapids (Mich.). Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BLOOD ON ORCHARD STREET written by CHARLES MORST and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read in to the world of crime like you never seen before Mike Hallman is a veteran of the police force for the last twenty two years, and had been assigned to a case that may alter the way he views crime. The way that he solve them, and the idea of murder. As him and his loyal partner; Detective Brandon Small gives their effort to cracking what might be the most disturbing case in his career. The clock ticks as the suspect of a gruesome murder eluded police officers and has Hallman on a chase that will surely leave him speechless. As a murder of a young woman unfold in a little town all is not what you think? What secrets lies on Orchard Street? In this fiction based crime novel; Author Charles Morst gives you crime to really shoot your brains out for. This twisted, thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more.
Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 97 Orchard Street New York written by Linda Granfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine growing up on Orchard Street in 1916. If you were a member of the large Confino family you'd be living in 325 square feet of space. The only fresh air and natural light would come from the two windows in the front room. No heat, no water, no bathtub, no shower. Toilet in the hall. The Confinos' apartment is only one part of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, an extraordinary facility in New York City. The Museum has restored 97 Orchard Street to provide us with an opportunity to understand the immigrant experience shared by millions who have come to North America. In text and with archival photos, Linda Granfield tells the story of four families, including the Confinos, who called 97 Orchard Street home, and provides information about the period, the history of the house, and the neighborhood, bringing to life conditions that were familiar to immigrants in many of North America's big cities. The stories and archival materials are beautifully complemented by Arlene Alda's sensitive photographs that evoke the hardship, the dignity, and the hope encompassed in 97 Orchard Street. The book includes useful facts, information about the Museum and its efforts to help new immigrants who share similar experiences. Whether or not the reader can visit the Museum itself, this book is a valuable resource in understanding our own histories in North America.
Download or read book Strakers annual mercantile ship insurance register written by Samuel Straker (and sons.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the City Commission written by Grand Rapids (Mich.). City Commission and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
