1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000309010403321

Autore

Calzavara, Vittorio

Titolo

L'industria del gaz illuminante. / Di Vittorio Calzavara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Hoepli, 1899

Descrizione fisica

XXXI,671,64 p., ill., 16 tav., 16 cm

Collana

Manuali Hoepli

Disciplina

660

Locazione

DINCH

Collocazione

04 107-9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781312603321

Titolo

Rediscovering America : Japanese Perspectives on the American Century / / Peter Duus, Kenji Hasegawa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-27852-9

9786613278524

0-520-95037-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power ; ; 19

Disciplina

327.7305209/04

Soggetti

Japan - Relations - United States

Japan -- Relations -- United States

Public opinion - Japan

Public opinion -- Japan

United States - Civilization - 20th century - Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States - Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States -- Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States - Relations - Japan



United States -- Relations -- Japan

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

United States Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States Civilization 20th century Foreign public opinion, Japanese

United States Relations Japan

Japan Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Illusion and Disillusion -- Chapter 2. Students and Immigrants -- Chapter 3. Modan America -- Chapter 4. The American Enemy -- Chapter 5. The American Occupiers -- Chapter 6. America Ascendant -- Chapter 7. America in Decline -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes-America's origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance-making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794934503321

Autore

Levine Naomi

Titolo

Poor Jews : An American Awakening / / Naomi Levine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-31942-6

1-351-31944-2

1-351-31943-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages)

Disciplina

362.8/4

Soggetti

Jews - United States - Economic conditions

Poor - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

part, 1 Poverty Among Jews -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The Culture of Poverty / Oscar Lewis -- chapter 2 The Invisible Jewish Poor / Ann G. Wolfe -- chapter 3 Jews Without Money, Revisited / Paul Cowan -- chapter 4 The Hasidic Poor in New York City / Phyllis Franck -- part, 2 The Jewish Response to the Jewish Poor -- chapter 5 Some Aspects of the Jewish Attitude Toward the Welfare State / Isadore Twersky -- chapter 6 Concept of Tzedakah in Contemporary Jewish Life / Leo Jung -- chapter 7 Our Jewish Poor: How Can They Be Served? / Jerome M. Comar -- chapter 8 Problems in Serving Chicago’s Jewish Poor / Aviva Silberman -- part, 3 The Jewish Poor and the War Against Poverty -- chapter 9 Why Jews Get Less: A Study of Jewish Participation in the Poverty Program / Naomi Levine Martin Hochbaum -- chapter 10 Memorandum of Inspection Division -- Office of Economic Opportunity -- chapter 11 Re: Jewish Poverty / Sol Levy Bernard Weinberger -- part, 4 On Ending Jewish Poverty -- chapter 12 The Jewish Hospital and the Jewish Community / William Kavesh -- chapter 13 A Systematic Approach to Poverty Policy / Bruno Stein -- chapter 14 Postscript: Elder's Lib

Sommario/riassunto

"The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes. But this



image is far from true. Poor Jews: An American Awakening shatters, once and for all, the stereotype of Jewish affluence.Citing national data and descriptions of the life-styles of the Jewish poor, the authors reveal unique social characteristics of the Jewish poorincluding the surprising statistic that over two-thirds of the members of this group are past the age of sixty, thus experiencing the compounded disadvantage of being poor, elderly, and deserted by the young, mobile Jewish community.Reasons for the "invisibility" of Jewish poverty are examined, as well as how the Jewish community has responded to poverty within its own ethnic group and Jewish attitudes toward the welfare state and charity. The lack of Jewish participation in antipoverty programs is cited, along with measures which will bring them fully into this and other federal and state programs."--Provided by publisher.