Books by Hasia R. Diner

?What she has done, and this should be a model for others writing ethnic history, is to examine the complexities that motivated one group of individuals to help another group at a particular point in time. Well done Dr. Diner!?-Labor History

Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. This is an account of one of our famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity. It examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan.

This book tells the stories of three groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food. Irish immigrants diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And East European Jews found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices.

A major re-examination of postwar American Jewry that debunks the assumption of silence