The death of King Edward VII in 1910 brought the curtain down on a gilded age of optimism and invincibility, social mores and technological hubris. Symbolically, in April 1912, the RMS Titanic sank.
Most of the classic American Jewish memoirs and novels share some archetypal experiences: arriving at Ellis Island, growing up in a tenement on the Lower East Side, struggling to “make it.” Returning ...
When you can tell someone that you’ve got a German bakery in your state that’s been using the same recipes since the 1890s, ...