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Rose Cohen. Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side, with an Introduction by Thomas Dublin. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995). Pp. vii-313. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-8268-7.
Rose Cohen was born in Russia at the end of the 19th century and immigrated to the United States of America in the early part of the 20th century. The circumstances she encountered while transitioning from one "Old World" culture to a "New World" one primarily constitute the source material she uses in Out of the Shadow. There appears to be a great deal of difference between the daily life and cultures encountered by a young Jewish girl/woman in Russia and one in America. These differences more than likely pertain to both cultures as well as to simply daily life and expectations for it. More than likely, it was the striking differences in these aspects of life that motivated the author to compose this particular piece of literature. By providing first-hand, autobiographical information about her own life as it relates to this theme, any reader of this manuscript would expect Cohen to be fairly authoritative (if not necessarily accurate) about the details of her own life as it relates...
These differences are exacerbated by the strict Jewish
religion that the author grew up participating in. From that point, the theme of the book is the cultural differences not only between two countries, but also between a strict Jewish culture and the more accepting religious tolerance of mainstream America. The book is an
autobiography of the life of Rose Cohen, who moved from Russia to the New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century.
The author's specific thesis regarding this theme is that there is an inherent difficulty in a woman striving to account for these differences, and that as desirable as full assimilation into the cultures of a new
land may be, it is exceedingly difficult to accomplish with so many ties to those of one's former land and religion.
The author includes no other source material within this work of
literature other than her own recollections. As such, the degree of confidence that this unilateral perspective on the…
