Streets A Memoir of the Lower East Side

"When [Spewack] died in 1990 at age 91, the executors of her estate found this unpublished memoir. It was written in 1922, after Spewack had graduated from high school--a major accomplishment in those days for an impoverished Hungarian Jewish immigrant girl--and begun to write for newspapers. It looks back on hardship with only a few hints of the triumphs to follow...Terse, unpretentious, mature in outlook, it features good dialogue and telling physical detail.Spewack, Bella is the author of 'Streets A Memoir of the Lower East Side', published 1996 under ISBN 9781558611535 and ISBN 1558611533.