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100 1 $aSoyer, Daniel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96099986
245 10 $aJewish immigrant associations and American identity in New York, 1880-1939 /$cDaniel Soyer.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9705
300 $a291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tNote on Orthography and Transliteration --$g1.$tThe Old World --$g2.$tThe New World --$g3.$tLandsmanshaft Culture and Immigrant Identities --$g4.$tBrothers in Need --$g5.$tThe Building Blocks of Community --$g6.$tInstitutional Dilemmas --$g7.$tThe Heroic Period --$g8.$tLooking Backward.
520 $aHow did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity?
520 8 $aIn his answer to this question, Daniel Soyer examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations (landsmanshaftn) transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society. Focusing on New York - where some 3,000 associations enrolled nearly half a million members - this study is one of the first to explore the organizations' full range of activities, and to show how the newcomers exercised a high degree of agency in their growing identification with American society.
520 8 $aThe wide variety of landsmanshaftn - from politically radical and secular to Orthodox and from fraternal order to congregation - illustrates the diversity of influences on immigrant culture. But nearly all of these societies adopted the democratic benefits and practices that were seen as the most positive aspects of American civic culture.
520 8 $aIn contrast to the old-country hierarchical dispensers of charity, the newcomers' associations relied on mutual aid for medical care, income support, burial, and other traditional forms of self-help. During World War I, the landsmanshaftn sent aid to their war-ravaged hometowns; by the 1930s, the common identity centered increasingly upon collective reminiscing and hometown nostalgia.
520 8 $aThe example of the Jewish landsmanshaftn suggests that many immigrants cultivated their own identification with American society to a far greater extent than is usually recognized. It also suggests that they selectively identified with those aspects of American culture that allowed them to retain emotional attachments to old-country landscapes and a sense of kinship with those who shared their heritage.
650 0 $aJews, East European$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocieties, etc.$xHistory.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocieties, etc.$xHistory.
650 0 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocieties, etc.$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116329
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