Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side 1558611150, 9781558611153

Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower Eas

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Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side
1558611150, 9781558611153

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