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On Manhattan's Lower East Side

Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side, by Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum Sale Books " The earliest Yiddish AmericanListen to our podcast with authors Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum here: Throughout its history, New Yorks Lower East Side has reflected the cultural demographics of the city. In 1890, Jacob Riis published How The Other Half Lives, a photographic indictment that exposed the deplorable and dangerous living and working conditions of newly arrived immigrants who had come to America seeking a better life. Faced with circumstances that in many cases were