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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York: The Wpa Yiddish Writers Group Study

Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York: The Wpa Yiddish Writers Group Study

Kliger, Hannah

Hardcover

Series: Modern Jewish Experience

DutchJudaismGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0253331285
ISBN13: 9780253331281
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 22 1992
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Hannah Kliger has provided an important service to historians . . . --Journal of American Ethnic History

. . . Hannah Kliger has provided a valuable primary source for studying immigrant Jewry and has argued forcefully for the resiliency and adaptability of ethnic institutions as mechanisms for Jewish adaptation and survival. --American Jewish Archives

Struggling to cope in a strange land, immigrants in the early years of this century gathered with compatriots from their old hometowns and with family for their social life and to form support systems. Here is an illuminating portrait of community life among Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, as seen by participants in landsmanshaftn (hometown associations) and family circles. Prepared in the 1930s through the WPA-sponsored Yiddish Writer's Group, this revealing document is published here for the first time.

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