Early Broadway's un-Jewish Jews.

From: Midstream | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

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... Between 1880 and 1905, about a million and a half Jews from Siberia and Eastern Europe settled in NewYork. By 1910, Jews composed a quarter of the population. The other three quarters began to look upon them as an Asiatic horde that would soon smother the entire town and wipe out its traditions. Even an expatriate like Henry James worried over "the Hebrew conquest of New York," with East Side cafes that served as "torture-rooms of the living idiom."

But the "living idiom" was changing all the time, and the Jewish torture-rooms would lead right to the language of ...

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