Tales of and about Jewish Youth during the Fin-de-siècle Era: An Annotated Gazette for a Transitional Decade in Upstate New York

by Lawrence M. Ginsburg

Overview

This is the story of Jewish youth in upstate New York during the fin-de-siZcledecade of the nineteenth century. Ginsburg details periods of transition for these youths, such as exploring life at various Jewish orphanages, where children were sheltered, educated, and taught trade skills to support themselves thereafter. He profiles The Jewish Tidings, a weekly journal that ran from 1887 to 1897, which heralded itself as 'A Fearless Exponent of Progressive Judaism!' and polarized Eastern European Jewish immigrants from the predominantly German-Jewish brethren. Ginsburg rounds out his examination of Jewish life during the fin-de-siZcle era by profiling figures such as a rabbi and a Jewish match peddler in Syracuse, as well as the Young Men's Hebrew Association and the Jewish Chautauqua Association. Ginsburg, a native of Syracuse, New York, delves into the history of Jewish youths during this era with interest and enthusiasm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761848660
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/22/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	94
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Lawrence M. Ginsburg is a retired lawyer who has written, among non-legal publications, Israelites in Blue and Gray: Unchronicled Tales from Two Cities (University Press of America, 2001); the essay ''Happyville' Deconstructed: An Over-caricatured Landmark in Southern Jewish History' (The South Carolina Review, 2006). Other endeavors include more then two dozen psychoanalytically-oriented papers authored or co-authored by him, which have appeared in journals published in North America, Europe and Israel. Several have been translated into French, German and Hebrew. His wife, Sybil A. Ginsburg, M.D., who is affiliated with the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute shares an interest in such scholarly pursuits.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Illustrations
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Part 3 Part A
Chapter 4 Straddling Latitude 43 Degrees North
Chapter 5 A "Thumb Nail" Sketch of 19th-Century Jewish Activism in Upstate New York Before the Fin-de-siécle Decade
Part 6 Part B
Chapter 7 A Jewish Orphanage
Chapter 8 The Jewish Tidings
Chapter 9 Betwixt and Between
Part 10 Part C
Chapter 11 Pre-Adolescent Truants or Rascal Lads
Chapter 12 "Willie Provol, the Syracuse Match Peddler, Arrested for Looting Jamesville Carpenter Shop"
Chapter 13 Erie Canal Circus-Boat Performer and Cayuga Lake Steam-Boat Concessionaire
Chapter 14 Other Adolescent and Early Adult Pursuits
Part 15 Part D
Chapter 16 Syracuse's 'Der Rabbiner'
Chapter 17 M. Peissackwotch = "The Passover-Watcher" = 'Herr M'
Chapter 18 The Kier Brothers
Part 19 Part E
Chapter 20 Young Men's Hebrew Associations
Chapter 21 Jewish Chautauqua Society
Chapter 22 College-based Organizations
Chapter 23 U.S.S. Olympia
Chapter 24 Ripening of Ecumenical Dialogue
Part 25 Part F
Chapter 26 The Fresh Air Fund
Chapter 27 A Model Non-Sectarian Entity
Chapter 28 A Repentant Son?
Chapter 29 The Republic's 'Color-Blind' Character
Part 30 Part G
Chapter 31 Epilogue
Part 32 Appendixes
Chapter 33 1. "Daddy's Prophecy"
Chapter 34 2. October 9, 1899 letter from Richard Feinberg to William R. George
Chapter 35 3. Glossary
Chapter 36 Bibliography
Chapter 37 About the Author