Descripción
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.
Author: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: American Jewish Civilization Series
Published: 02/05/2018
Pages: 321
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780814344507
ISBN10: 081434450X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- History | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
Daniel Soyer is professor in the department of History at Fordham University and former archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.