From immigrant to ethnic culture
Subtitle: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia
By: Rakhmiel Peltz.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs; Yiddish language -- Dialects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; South  Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index.