| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881–1905. By Hadassa Kosak. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7914-4583-6. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-4584-4.)

Turn-of-the-last-century eastern European Jewish immigrants living and working in New York's Lower East Side have been a favorite subject for historians developing analyses of working-class immigrant experiences. Hadassa Kosak convincingly argues that the history of New York's Jewish workers is still ripe for study. She challenges the still-dominant narrative that Irving Howe first advanced in his World of Our Fathers (1976). In this encyclopedic work, Howe argued that the Jewish immigrant working class reached organizational maturity only after 1909 with the famous "Uprising of the 20,000," the country's largest women's strike to date. Kosak, through careful examination of an impressive range of sources (from newspapers to Yiddish autobiographies), describes an array of resistance strategies developed by the first generation of eastern European Jews in America. . . .

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