Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American CultureWayne State University Press, 2018 M02 5 - 320 pages Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process. |
Contents
The New World | |
Landsmanshaft Culture and Immigrant Identities | |
Brothers in Need | |
The Building Blocks of Community | |
Institutional Dilemmas | |
The Heroic Period | |
Looking Backward | |
Other editions - View all
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 Daniel Soyer Limited preview - 2001 |
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 Daniel Soyer Limited preview - 1997 |
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