Kate Pastor: My Great Great Aunt Rose of the Lower East Side (2014) [LEC, ENG]

My Great Great Aunt Rose of the Lower East Side A Family Story by Kate Pastor October 2, 2014 View GVSHP’s upcoming public programs at “Cinderella of the Sweatshops.” “Rose of the Ghetto.” “The Socialist Socialite.” Before Rose Pastor Stokes was so-named, she rolled stogies in an Ohio factory and wrote letters to the Jewish Daily News between and during shifts. She was hired as a reporter and moved to New York’s Lower East Side, marrying a rich philanthropist she had interviewed f