%{search_type} search results

2 catalog results

RSS feed for this result

1. Menashe [2017]

  • A24, 2017. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Description
Video — 1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound Sound: digital. Digital: video file; MPEG-4; Flash.
Summary
In this heartwarming and fascinating story that gives a first-time glimpse into a notoriously secret community, a loving orthodox Jewish father fights against tradition in order to keep custody of his only son after his wife passes away. Nominated for Best First Feature at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*The subtle on-screen chemistry between father and son gives this sweet and poignant drama a solid emotional base.*" - Bruce DeMara, ***The Toronto Star***
Online
CSRE-185B-01, CSRE-185B-01, HISTORY-185B-01, HISTORY-185B-01, HISTORY-385C-01, HISTORY-385C-01, JEWISHST-185B-01, JEWISHST-185B-01, REES-185B-01, REES-185B-01, SLAVIC-183-01, SLAVIC-183-01

Online 2. Jewish immigrants and American capitalism, 1880-1920 : from caste to class [2009]

IIIF Drag-n-drop

Digital borrowing available to Stanford faculty and students.
Simultaneous use is limited.

Description
Book — xxiii, 224 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Prologue--
  • 1. Down and out in eastern Europe--
  • 2. Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities--
  • 3. Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology-- Afterword.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Eli Lederhendler's Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United States around the turn of the 20th century - a group that accounted for 10 to 15 percent of immigrants to the United States between 1899 and 1920 - challenging and revising common assumptions concerning the ease of their initial adaptation and image as a 'model' immigrant minority. Lederhendler demonstrates that the characteristics for which Jewish immigrants are commonly known - their industriousness, 'middle-class' domestic habits, and political sympathy for the working class - were, in fact, developed in response to their new situation in the United States. This experience realigned Jewish social values and restored to these immigrants a sense of status, honor, and a novel kind of social belonging, and with it the 'social capital' needed to establish a community quite different from the ones they came from.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Also online at
Green Library
HISTORY-385B-01, JEWISHST-385B-01