Daniel Soyer is professor of History at Fordham University. His books include Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (Harvard, 1997), winner of the AJHS’s Saul Viener Award, The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (with Annie Polland, NYU, 2012), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell, 2021), and, as editor, My Future Is in America: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Autobiographies (with Jocelyn Cohen, NYU, 2006).
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Review of East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press, edited and translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin
Daniel Soyer
The well-translated articles make for entertaining, and often moving, reading. But they also serve as an introduction to the social and cultural history of life in the Jewish East End.
Sep 10, 2025