From immigrant to ethnic culture : American Yiddish in South Philadelphia

著者

    • Peltz, Rakhmiel

書誌事項

From immigrant to ethnic culture : American Yiddish in South Philadelphia

Rakhmiel Peltz

（Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture）

Stanford University Press, c1998

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: 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

: 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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