Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Biennial session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States
Author: National Conference of Jewish Charities (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Proceedings at the Annual Session
Author: National Conference of Jewish Social Service (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Biennial Session
Author: Report
Author: Kansas. Board of Control of State Charitable InstitutionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Promised City
Author: Moses RischinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674715011
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.
Shul with a Pool
Author: David KaufmanPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518931
Category : Jewish community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.
Lillian Wald
Author: Marjorie N. FeldPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist. She was also a second-generation German Jewish immigrant who developed close associations with Jewish New York even as she consistently dismissed claims that her work emerged from a fundamentally Jewish calling. Challenging the conventional understanding of the Progressive movement as having its origins in Anglo-Protestant teachings, Marjorie Feld offers a critical biography of Wald in which she examines the crucial and complex significance of Wald's ethnicity to her life's work. In addition, by studying the Jewish community's response to Wald throughout her public career from 1893 to 1933, Feld demonstrates the changing landscape of identity politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Feld argues that Wald's innovative reform work was the product of both her own family's experience with immigration and assimilation as Jews in late-nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, and her encounter with Progressive ideals at her settlement house in Manhattan. As an ethnic working on behalf of other ethnics, Wald developed a universal vision that was at odds with the ethnic particularism with which she is now identified. These tensions between universalism and particularism, assimilation and group belonging, persist to this day. Thus Feld concludes with an exploration of how, after her death, Wald's accomplishments have been remembered in popular perceptions and scholarly works. For the first time, Feld locates Wald in the ethnic landscape of her own time as well as ours.
Proceedings of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service at the annual session
Author: National Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920
Author: Melissa R. KlapperPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society. While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history. Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.