From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture)
by Rakhmiel Peltz
Category: History

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.