| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 eldersÑonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sÑtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an Òorphanage.Ó 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.) fast |
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Jewish orphanages -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- History
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Orphans -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Social conditions
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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Jewish orphanages
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Orphans -- Social conditions
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New York (State) -- Rochester
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817382827 |
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0817382828 |
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