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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955838203321

Autore

Hoffman Betty N

Titolo

Jewish hearts : a study of dynamic ethnicity in the United States and the Soviet Union / / Betty N. Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2001

ISBN

9780791490785

0791490785

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Oral and Public History

SUNY series in oral and public history

Disciplina

974.6/3004924

Soggetti

Immigrants - Connecticut - Hartford - History - 20th century

Jews - Migrations

Jews - Connecticut - Hartford - History - 20th century

Jews - Connecticut - Hartford - Identity

Jews - Soviet Union - History

Jews - Soviet Union - Identity

Jews, Soviet - Connecticut - Hartford

Hartford (Conn.) Ethnic relations

Soviet Union Ethnic relations

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 (p. 263-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustration""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Definitions and Demographics""; ""Russian Jews""; ""Soviet Jews""; ""American Jews""; ""Sources of Information""; """"The Literature""""; ""Theoretical Analysis in a Complex World""; ""THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH LIFE IN TWO CONTEXTS, 1881-1970""; ""The Old Country""; ""The Search for a Niche In the Soviet World""; ""Die Goldene Medine: The Golden Land""; ""The Consolidation of the Hartford Jewish Community""

""EGYPT AND THE EXODUS, 1970-1984""""Egypt""; ""Jewish Identity""; ""Ethnicity: In the Community,at School, and at Work""; ""The Exodus""; ""THE PROMISED LAND, 1975-1984""; ""Selecting New Strategies for the



New World""; ""Incorporating New Variables""; ""Involvement with Community Life""; ""Religion and Identity in the Promised Land""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

This ethnographic study compares and contrasts the changing ethnic identity of those Russian Jews who settled in Hartford, Connecticut between 1881 and 1930 with that of the Soviet Jews who remained in Russia after the Revolution, became Soviet citizens, and emigrated after 1975. Although both groups were labeled "Jews," their internal definitions of what constituted being Jewish and their personal experiences were radically different. Using both archival and contemporary oral histories, Betty N. Hoffman traces the stories of real people whose lives and choices were affected by both their ethnic identity and the larger movements around them as they made new homes in the United States.