- 1986/270 pages
- Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers
The Pletzl of Paris:
Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque
Hardcover: $47.00
ISBN: 978-0-8419-0995-3
In a challenging new interpretation of Jewish immigrant history, Nancy L. Green traces the westward movement of East European Jews to France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and explores their experiences as immigrant workers.
By 1914 some 40,000 East European Jews had settled in France, many of them in Paris's Marais district, known in Yiddish as the Pletzl, or little square. Green focuses on the socioeconomic parameters of the immigrants' condition as she examines the development of the early Jewish labor movement, analyzes its relationship to the Confédération Général du Travail, and discusses its class and ethnic boundaries.
By 1914 some 40,000 East European Jews had settled in France, many of them in Paris's Marais district, known in Yiddish as the Pletzl, or little square. Green focuses on the socioeconomic parameters of the immigrants' condition as she examines the development of the early Jewish labor movement, analyzes its relationship to the Confédération Général du Travail, and discusses its class and ethnic boundaries.
