From immigrant to ethnic culture : American Yiddish in South Philadelphia
著者
書誌事項
From immigrant to ethnic culture : American Yiddish in South Philadelphia
(Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture)
Stanford University Press, c1998
- : cloth
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: cloth ISBN 9780804730204
内容説明
This book provides a fresh look at ethnic culture in the contemporary United States through an ethnographic account of everyday life in the Jewish community of South Philadelphia. By embracing the language and traditions of their childhood, elderly Jewish residents, the children of immigrants, create a path for the transmission of immigrant culture. The work highlights the role of language in collective memory. The residents' use of Yiddish and their warm attitude toward the language illuminate their changing and overlapping identifications with the neighborhood, their non-Jewish neighbors, Jewish traditions and religion, and their children and parents.
The book serves as a corrective to the view of the second generation that concentrates solely on the framework of mobility and rejection of one's parents' culture, neglecting the importance of life cycle changes. It depicts children of immigrants as crucial interpreters of the culture of the immigrants' homeland as they forge a meaningful existence for themselves and their own children. In the course of the work, the author documents and analyzes for the first time the Yiddish speech of American Jews. He examines the cultural implications of the use of English in Yiddish speech, as well as the change in Yiddish sounds and verbal forms.
Throughout, the author carefully examines his own role in revitalizing Yiddish in South Philadelphia as he established close relationships with elderly Jews, meeting them in their homes, shops, and senior center, and leading a Yiddish conversation group at the community center. He thus provides a thoughtful contribution to the methodological discussion among anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists of the paradoxes inherent in participant-observer studies.
目次
- Part I. Getting to Know the Residents: 1. Walking into the neighborhood
- 2. 'It used to be like Jerusalem': history and institutions of the Jewish community of South Philadelphia
- 3. Izzy's luncheonette: the neighborhood's center
- 4. A gleyele tey (a glass of tea): a Yiddish conversation group
- Part II. Identities: 5. A Jewish place
- 6. Coming home to South Philadelphia
- Part III. Language and Culture: 7. Cycles of using Yiddish
- 8. Yiddish fluency
- 9. Facets of speech
- Part IV. Philadelphia and Beyond: The Evolution of Ethnic Culture: 10. Language and identity
- 11. Aging and the life course: the memory of language
- 12. American Yiddish, American Jewish: from immigrant to ethnic culture
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780804731676
内容説明
This text provides a fresh look at ethnic culture in the contemporary United States through an ethnographic account of everyday life in the Jewish community of South Philadelphia. By embracing the language and traditions of their childhood, elderly Jewish residents, the children of immigrants, create a path for the transmission of immigrant culture. The work highlights the role of language in collective memory. The residents use of Yiddish and their warm attitude toward the language illuminate their changing and overlapping identifications with the neighborhood, their non-Jewish neighbors, Jewish traditions and religion, and their children and parents. The book serves as a corrective to the view of the second generation that concentrates solely on the framework of mobility and rejection of one s parents culture, neglecting the importance of life cycle changes. It depicts children of immigrants as crucial interpreters of the culture of the immigrants homeland as they forge a meaningful existence for themselves and their own children. In the course of the work, the author documents and analyzes for the first time the Yiddish speech of American Jews.
He examines the cultural implications of the use of English in Yiddish speech, as well as the change in Yiddish sounds and verbal forms.
目次
- Part I. Getting to Know the Residents: 1. Walking into the neighborhood
- 2. 'It used to be like Jerusalem': history and institutions of the Jewish community of South Philadelphia
- 3. Izzy's luncheonette: the neighborhood's center
- 4. A gleyele tey (a glass of tea): a Yiddish conversation group
- Part II. Identities: 5. A Jewish place
- 6. Coming home to South Philadelphia
- Part III. Language and Culture: 7. Cycles of using Yiddish
- 8. Yiddish fluency
- 9. Facets of speech
- Part IV. Philadelphia and Beyond: The Evolution of Ethnic Culture: 10. Language and identity
- 11. Aging and the life course: the memory of language
- 12. American Yiddish, American Jewish: from immigrant to ethnic culture
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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