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World of Our Fathers

Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo

Discusses the Jews of Eastern Europe who emigrated to America during the four decades beginning in the 1880s and the life they made, especially those who settled on the East Side of New York City.

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · high confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: Ethnic relations -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -> Race & EthnicityFamily BiographyFamily, Childhood & AdoptionMemoir & Personal History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor1976FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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    • New York City60%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.