Week of 11/3
30 10 2008Yiddish Speaking Socialists of the Lower East Side
by Edward Sanders
…They came to Antwerp and then to London
and then to Ludlow Street
to make a New World
inside the New World
at century’s turn—
The Yiddish-speaking socialists
of the Lower East Side
Some remembered
with pangs and tears
the beautiful rural life
wrested away…
