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Journal of American ethnic history, 2010, Vol.29 (2), p.74-78
Ort / Verlag
Champaign: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Moon opines that learning through fiction can be an enjoyable and creative way to engage the history of the immigrant experience. Students usually like the narrative structure and dialogue in fiction much more than what they often see as the plodding analysis of a historical monograph. For example, Susan Glenn's Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1991) is an important and well-written analysis of Jewish immigrant women from Poland and Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It shows how they were propelled into the work force to help their families survive, and how their becoming workers changed gender roles within their community and, more broadly, the US.