Fourth Street East

Jerome Weidman

first published 1970 Bodley Head, 1971 239 pages

Hilarious and heart-breaking tales of a boyhood in 1920s New York, told by the writer whom critic Alistair Cooke called "the Dickens of the Lower East Side." Originally published in print in 1970, Fourth Street East is considered one of Weidman's most delightful works, offering the listener the voices and rhythms of New York's Jewish immigrants, the garment district in which so many of them worked and the extraordina...

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Fourth Street East audiobook · 2002 · JCC Audio Books · 5 pages · 9781893079113
Fourth Street East edition · 1971 · Bodley Head · 239 pages
Fourth Street East edition · 1970 · Random House · 239 pages
Fourth Street East. edition · Lanewood

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