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Yiddish Speaking Socialists of the Lower East Side (The format has been altered by the blog.)

by Edward Sanders

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…They came to Antwerp and then to London

and then to Ludlow Street

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to make a New World

inside the New World

at century’s turn—

The Yiddish-speaking socialists

of the Lower East Side

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Some remembered

with pangs and tears

the beautiful rural life

wrested away…

Irving Berlin’s Lower East Side. Photograph. munnlodge.org/cms/sites/default/files/BerlinsLES-Songbook.jpg. Web.