Author : Italian Heritage Collection
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
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ISBN : 9781735943503
Author : Mary Brignano
Publisher : Historical Society of Western
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780936340029
Boundless Lives puts a human face on the courage, hope, and hard work of the region's Italian Americans. More than 100 immigrants and their descendants recall the years of separation, love of the strange new land, hard physical labor, and most of all, the bonds of family that have persisted for decades. Sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, the stories are ultimately inspiring. Color maps and organization profiles further explain the breadth and depth of Italian settlement in the region. Includes an introduction by Nicholas P. Ciotola, curator of the Italian American Collection at the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Author : Nicholas P. Ciotola
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531622343
In 1930, one out of every six Pittsburgh residents was an immigrant. More came from Italy than from any other country in the world. Drawn by chain migration and the prospect of work in coal mines, steel mills, railroads, and other local industries, Italian immigrants contributed greatly to the growth and development of western Pennsylvania and endowed the region with a rich and vibrant ethnic culture that has endured to the present day. In this unprecedented volume, nearly two hundred photographs collected from Italian American families still living in the Pittsburgh region illustrate aspects of the Italian immigrant experience in western Pennsylvania, including work, community, leisure, religion, and family life. Italians of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania tells the uplifting story of the work ethic that these pioneering immigrants brought to Pittsburgh and how they laid a solid foundation on which later generations could build and persevere.
Author : Senator John Heinz History Center
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Italian American families
ISBN :
The Boundless Lives: Italian Americans of Western Pennsylvania oral histories consist of 75 oral histories and transcripts that were conducted to document the history of prominent Italian American families across Western Pennsylvania. Generally speaking, these oral history interviews revolve around the following key themes: immigration from Italy, settlement in Western Pennsylvania, cultural assimilation, and success in America. As they were conducted by a number of different interviewers, the content, length, style, and quality of these oral histories vary. Of the oral histories that comprise this collection, the following interviews are worthy of mention for their quality of their content: Eugene Barone, Luigi Caruso, Mario Farina, Angelo Gualdaroni, John Notaro, Joe DAndrea, Pietro DiPietro, Providenza Crisanti, Ralph Falbo, and A. J. Palumbo.
Author : Stephanie Longo
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531621322
Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Courthouse Square in Scranton for the largest ethnic festival in northeastern Pennsylvania: La Festa Italiana. The Italians of this region have been proudly celebrating their heritage since their arrival in this country with traditional festivals, including La Corsa dei Ceri in Jessup and Dunmore's procession in honor of St. Rocco. Using vintage and recent photographs, Italians of Northeastern Pennsylvania shows how the Italian immigrants to this area, some of whom arrived with little more than the clothes on their back, became well-respected community leaders. Through hard work and dedication, they have made northeastern Pennsylvania into an area that defines the term "ethnic pride."
Author : Canadian Italian Historical Association
Publisher : Thunder Bay, Ont. : Canadian Italian Historical Association
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
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Author : Simone Cinotto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252095014
Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity. Italian American foods offered not only sustenance but also powerful narratives of community and difference, tradition and innovation as immigrants made their way through a city divided by class conflict, ethnic hostility, and racialized inequalities. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Oral history
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1896
Category :
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Author : Mario Toglia
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1664130152
They Came By Ship: The Stories of the Calitrani Immigrants in America is the product of the Internet Age which brought together people researching their roots to their ancestral town of Calitri in Southern Italy. They came to know one another and, in many cases, rekindled old friendships and discovered distant relatives in second and third cousins. They began sharing stories on the Net of the good old days, recalling neighborhoods where their parents and grandparents had settled after emigrating from Italy. These communities included Brooklyn, New Rochelle, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Batavia, Mount Vernon in New York; Montclair, Paterson, Newark in New Jersey; Stamford, Bridgeport, Torrington in Connecticut; Dunmore in Pennsylvania; Washington, DC and Pittsfield, MA. Their recollections proved to be so interesting and poignant to all that they needed to be set down in permanent form and preserved for future generations. Mario Toglia of New York initiated this book project with Josephine Galgano Gore, Angela Cicoira Moloney, Fred Rabasca, Rick Morris and Mary Margotta Basile, descendents of original immigrants from Calitri. The book contains over 100 personal and biographical stories, which illustrate various aspects of the lives, traditions and customs of the Calitrani community within the Italian immigrant experience. Also included are several newspaper articles and obituaries, as well as a list of more than 4000 Calitrani names who settled in America.
