and slums. The wordtenementbrings to mind both the miseries of urban life and the upward mobility of striving immigrant masses. New York has more Jews thanTel Aviv, more Irish thanDublin, more Italians thanNaples, and morePuerto RicansthanSan Juan. Its symbol is theStatue of Liberty, but th...
New York has more Jews than Tel Aviv, more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Naples, and more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. Its symbol is the Statue of Liberty, but the metropolis is itself an icon, the arena in which Emma Lazarus’s “tempest-tost” people of every nation are ...