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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Jewish immigrants"”.
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Recent Jewish immigrants' communication in Postville, Iowa: A case study
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An Investigation of the Health Beliefs and Health Behaviors of Recent Soviet Jewish Immigrants
… beliefs and health behaviors of recent Soviet Jewish immigrants to Chicago in order to respond to the health education needs of this population. The Health Belief Model provided the conceptual framework for the study. The four major areas investigated by this study were: (1) an examination of …
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In a Strange Land: Contributions to American Literature by Russian and Russian-Jewish Immigrants
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6406043.pdf: 20111472 bytes, checksum: 0e64e226a803e7d5776800002482d9aa (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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The children of the concrete : Jewish immigrants in the New York public school system at the turn of the 20th century
… the relatively successful adaptation by Jewish immigrants to American life by focusing on the experiences of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who moved to New York City between 1881-1914. It examines, in particular, the role of the public education system in this process. Jews used the …
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A lack of security or a lack of capital? : acculturative conservatism in immigrant naming
… towards "acculturative conservatism," whereby immigrants select given names for their children that were highly popular in an earlier generation of the native population. Acculturative conservatism can potentially be explained as an attempt to address immigrants' feelings of insecurity by …
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Immigrants to citizens : civil integration and acculturation of Jews into Oudtshoorn society, 1874-1999
… at providing a model for the study of rural Jewish communities in South Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular of the processes of acculturation and assimilation pertaining to Jewish immigrants in a frontier society. Oudtshoorn, an agricultural district in …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… from their “motherland,” confers the Russian Jewish immigrants a freedom to express allegiance on their own terms, choosing their own set of songs, emblems, and activities by blending premigration symbolism from the Soviet era with adaptations to American society. This study demonstrates that …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United States might affect the morphology of the American population. Seeing this as a chance to undermine racial typologies, Boas took many measurements of immigrants and their children and concluded that observed changes …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United States might affect the morphology of the American population. Seeing this as a chance to undermine racial typologies, Boas took many measurements of immigrants and their children and concluded that observed changes …
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An investigation into the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust effects in South African survivors
… of Holocaust effects among South African Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and their children. Its aim is to ascertain whether common patterns exist among survivor families that could be attributed to the parents' Holocaust past. Early theoretical and empirical literature suggests …
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Narrating Americanization: space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927
… three regions of the United States: stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City's Jewish ghetto (by Abraham Cahan, Rose Schneiderman, and Theresa Malkiel), stories of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco's Chinatown and Angel Island (in Songs of Gold Mountain, Island, and by Sui Sin Far), and …
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An "anarchist rabbi": The life and teachings of Rudolf Rocker
… He was particularly active among the Jewish immigrants in London's East End, where he organized a cohesive and militant anarchist group. He led the local workers in industrial struggles against the "sweating system," and for two decades Rocker, a gentile with no knowledge of Yiddish, …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
… Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as a coherent work by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali. The collection has been used by scholars as a source regarding …
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Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990
… becomes clear that a huge share of the Russian Jewish Immigrants in Germany and Israel are part of various elites due to their qualification and high positions in the FSU – first of all professional, cultural and intellectual elites (“Intelligentsija”). The study aimed to find out to what extent …
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Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory
… was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly due to the …
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„Ilyenek voltunk”– A zsidó identitástudat ábrázolásának kultúraszociológiai olvasata az amerikai játékfilmekben
… reading of the representation of the Jewish identity in the American feature films – From the beginning of the American movie history, there were lots of movies made, which had Jewish characters in leading roles. The Jewish characters in the movies of course not representing the Jews …
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A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
… social and cultural processes that characterized Jewish-Arab coexistence in the Muslim Arab societies of the Middle East and North Africa. For this purpose I survey: A. a large body of primary sources that have for the most part not been available in Hungarian. These include: parts of medieval …