03252oam 22005534a 450 991052470840332120240508134937.097808143445140814344518(CKB)4100000006996598(MiAaPQ)EBC5526554(OCoLC)1056053817(MdBmJHUP)muse68302(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88583(Perlego)2998792(oapen)doab88583(EXLCZ)99410000000699659820011108d2001 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture /Daniel SoyerWayne State University Press2018Detroit :Wayne State University Press,2001.©2001.1 online resource (314 pages)9780814344507 081434450X Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-274) and index.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Old World -- 2. The New World -- 3. Landsmanshaft Culture and Immigrant Identities -- 4. Brothers in Need -- 5. The Building Blocks of Community -- 6. Institutional Dilemmas -- 7. The Heroic Period -- 8. Looking Backward -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.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.JewsNew York (State)New YorkSocieties, etcHistoryImmigrantsNew York (State)New YorkSocieties, etcHistoryJews, East EuropeanNew York (State)New YorkSocieties, etcHistoryNew York (N.Y.)Ethnic relationsElectronic books. JewsSocieties, etc.History.ImmigrantsSocieties, etc.History.Jews, East EuropeanSocieties, etc.History.974.7/1004924/006Soyer Daniel451136MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524708403321Jewish immigrant associations and American identity in New York, 1880-1939145182UNINA