A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 - 306 pages "In this volume, [the author] focuses on how the eastern European Jewish migration, which set the tone for American Jewry in the final decades of the nineteenth century, confronted the issue of accommodation and group survival. A distinctive political and general culture, which amalgamated traditional Jewish and new American values, was established by the immigrant generation. That Yiddish-speaking transitional culture, which prevailed in the ethnic enclaves of the cities, was considerably modified once Jews left these core communities and after World War I, the cultural energy of the immigrant generation waned"--Series editor's foreword. |
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Page 92
... kehillah did useful work , notably in philanthropy and Jewish education , it failed to fulfill its founders ' goal , which , according to the kehillah's fore- most historian , Arthur Goren , was to control the unruly ghetto by “ molding ...
... kehillah did useful work , notably in philanthropy and Jewish education , it failed to fulfill its founders ' goal , which , according to the kehillah's fore- most historian , Arthur Goren , was to control the unruly ghetto by “ molding ...
Page 215
... kehillah was conceived and developed more generally to meet the need for a single , centralized organization to deal with the social and economic problems faced by the mass of Jews in New York on a daily basis . The guiding spirit was ...
... kehillah was conceived and developed more generally to meet the need for a single , centralized organization to deal with the social and economic problems faced by the mass of Jews in New York on a daily basis . The guiding spirit was ...
Page 216
... kehillah's desire for efficient community organization and the priority given to bring- ing order to the ghetto , it is possible to see reflections of the general Pro- gressive spirit abroad in the nation between 1900 and 1920. Magnes ...
... kehillah's desire for efficient community organization and the priority given to bring- ing order to the ghetto , it is possible to see reflections of the general Pro- gressive spirit abroad in the nation between 1900 and 1920. Magnes ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Chapter | 12 |
о Chapter Two The Immigration Experience | 38 |
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