Another World, Another Time: A Grandfather's Memoir

In this wry and poignant memoir of his early life in the East Bronx, Howard Nenner recounts his grandparents' origins in Eastern Europe, their move to the Lower East Side of New York City in the great wave of Jewish migration during the first decade of the twentieth century, and the difficulties of his parents' first-generation working-class lives. It is a story of the author's childhood and adolescence; a narrative of his coming of age; and an extended essay on the context and culture of Jewish life in the tenements of the Bronx from the Great Depression through the postwar years of the 1950s.