Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Jewish 'Landsmanshaftn' in American Culture

Daniel Soyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2018
Wayne State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8143-4450-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Daniel Soyer is professor in the department of History at Fordham University and former archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Jewish Civilization Series
Zusatzinfo	9 Black and White Images
Verlagsort	Detroit, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-8143-4450-X / 081434450X
ISBN-13	978-0-8143-4450-7 / 9780814344507
Zustand	Neuware