Poor People A Pobel

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In this moving novel, Isaac Kahn Friedman explores the lives of Jewish immigrants living in poverty in turn-of-the-century New York. Through a series of interconnected stories, Friedman depicts the struggles and joys of ordinary people trying to make a life for themselves and their families in a new and often hostile land. Poor People is a vivid and affecting portrait of a community on the margins of American society.