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Subject(s)

• Jews, East European—United States—Interviews [Browse]
• Jews—United States—Interviews [Browse]
• Jews—Cultural assimilation—United States [Browse]
• Immigrants—United States—Interviews [Browse]
• Oral history [Browse]
• United States—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Related name

• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 1941- [Browse]

Summary note

An account, based on interviews, of the experiences of East European Jewish immigrants and of their children (born between 1895-1915), emphasizing the traumas of antisemitism in Eastern Europe and of the demands of assimilation in the USA. Ch. 1 (pp. 3-38), "Dangerous Just to Be: Life in the Old Country, " discusses relations with Gentile neighbors and servants and the dangers of pogroms and attacks by antisemitic ruffians. Also mentions attacks on Jewish children in immigrant quarters in the U.S. and antisemitism in the school system. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: p. 287-293.

Contents

• "Dangerous just to be" : life in the old country
• "Tempest tossed" : learning to live in America
• Breaking away from Torah : the impact of American schooling
• The evil eye, the x ray, and the promise of good health
• "Of course I was a virgin when I married" : changing sexual mores
• "Trapped in the book" : childbirth and child care
• Yiddishkeit : the key to success in America
• "It's a free country" : remaining Jewish in America.

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ISBN

0465054250 :

LCCN

^^^88047900^

OCLC

18559315

RCP

H - S

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