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Orphans and Prodigies: Rediscovering Young Jewish Immigrant "Marginals"
Ist Teil von
American Jewish history, 2009-06, Vol.95 (2), p.135-155
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A youth-culture perspective on Jewish immigrant history in America, for instance, might involve delving into the loss of parental authority in immigrant households; the maintenance or weakening of linguistic and religious norms in the face of the "external" culture's imprint on young people's experiences; the intervention into such matters by socializing institutions (public schools, the social services sector, institutions like the Educational Alliance and its counterparts outside new York City); or the valorization of youthfulness and independence in modern American culture. Other scholars who have looked at previously unpublished immigrant memoirs have, similarly, exposed unsuspected layers of self-doubt and family dislocation.6 Along analogous lines, scholars who oversaw the translation and publication earlier in this decade of some of the autobiographies of Polish Jewish youth generated by the interwar YiVO institute in Vilna, underscored the significance of sudden or rapid social change in accounting for the surprising variety of young people's responses.