The home on Gorham Street and the voices of its children / Howard Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Howard, 1922-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish orphanages--New York (State)--Rochester--History.

Jewish orphanages.

Orphans--New York (State)--Rochester--Social conditions.

Orphans.

Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.)--History.

Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once wards of the home in the 1930's and 1940's tell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an orphanage. Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Home and Community; 2. Orphanages: Origins; 3. The Home: Origins and Meanings; 4. Facts and Figures; 5. ""It Wasn't Family but It Was Home""; 6. Life in the Home: Views from the Inside; 7. Lives and Meanings; 8. Closings; In Memoriam; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-225) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8282-8

OCLC:

426057076