The History of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia
Author : S. M. Fleischman
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : S. M. Fleischman
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : S. M. Fleischman
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Samuel M Fleischman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781020158704
Originally published in 1910, this institutional history offers readers a rare glimpse into the early days of the Jewish Foster Home & Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia. With stories of individual children and staff members as well as broader discussions of the organization's mission and philosophy, this book is a fascinating look at the ways in which the Jewish community in Philadelphia cared for its most vulnerable members. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Cyrus Adler
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Jews
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Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9780814321881
The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism as well as the increasing spirit of secularization that characterized emancipated, prosperous, liberal Jewry before it was confronted by a rising tide of American anti-Semitism in the 1920s.
Author : Caroline E. Light
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1479854530
“It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,” declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through so many ages of trial and vicissitude.” In That Pride of Race and Character, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of benevolence and charity and explores its southern roots. Light provides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and nativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge network of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those considered “their own” while also proving themselves to be exemplary white citizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from various southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders and their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of “fitting in” in a place and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the southern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the region’s racial mores and left behind a rich legacy.
Author : Marlene Trestman
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0807180882
Marlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation. It reflected the city’s affinity for religiously operated orphanages and the growing prosperity of its Jewish community. In 1904, the orphanage opened the Isidore Newman School, a coed, nonsectarian school that also admitted children, regardless of religion, whose parents paid tuition. By the time the Jewish Orphans’ Home closed in 1946, it had sheltered more than sixteen hundred parentless children and two dozen widows from New Orleans and other areas of Louisiana and the mid-South. Based on deep archival research and numerous interviews of alumni and their descendants, Most Fortunate Unfortunates provides a view of life in the Jewish Orphans’ Home for the children and women who lived there. The study also traces the forces that impelled the Home’s founders and leaders—both the heralded men and otherwise overlooked women—to create and maintain the institution that Jews considered the “pride of every Southern Israelite.” While Trestman celebrates the Home’s many triumphs, she also delves deeply into its failures. Most Fortunate Unfortunates is sure to be of widespread interest to readers interested in southern Jewish history, gender and race relations, and the evolution of social work and dependent childcare.
Author : Henry Samuel Morais
Publisher :
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Sigmund Hecht
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842027403
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