Union Square
Taking up where her celebrated Rivington Street left off, Meredith Tax's Union Square brims over with the passions and struggles of five indomitable women: Hannah Levy, the Russian immigrant matriarch; Sarah, a communist organizer who sides with the union--and against her Bolshevik husband--in opposing the Hitler-Stalin pact; Ruby, who covertly undercuts her department store magnate husband's business with her own clothing designs; Rachel, a wealthy widow dedicated to bohemian life and the pleasures of the Jazz Age; and Rachel's sister-in-law, Tish, a lesbian expatriate who seeks sexual and artistic fulfillment in the salons of Paris and Weimar Germany.
Gutsy and engrossing, Union Square paints a complex, believable picture of the tumultuous years between the end of the First World War and the eve of the Second.
Publishers Weekly, Aug. 12, 1988
Kirkus Review, Oct. 28, 1988
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/meredith-tax/union-square/
Ferenc Feher, “Revenir a la Maison,” Lettre Internationale, Autumn 1988, p. 49
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Lillian Robinson, “Uptown, Downtown,” Women’s Review of Books, Jan. 1989
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Eden Ross Lipson, “Downtown, Where the Action Was,” New York Times Book Review, Jan. 1, 1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/books/downtown-where-the-action-was.html
Lee Soble, “’Union Square’ Looks at US Jews’ Failure in Holocaust,” Beverly Hills Today, Jan. 13/14/15, 1989
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Gloria Goldreich, “Up from Rivington Street,” Jewish Week, Jan. 27, 1989
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Elayne Rapping, “PBS Meets Knots Landing,” The Nation, April 10, 1989
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Kathryn Ruth Bloom, “Union Square,” Hadassah Magazine, 1989 n.d.
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Joanna Briscoe, “Feminists Fatals,” Guardian, Feb. 1, 1990
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