scholarly journals From Eastern European Rooted Immigrant Circle to the Mainstream of American Culture – an Alfred Kazin’s Transition

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Rafał Zygmunt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Irreversible Loss ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
Deep Sense

Tracing the process of immigrants’ transition, it appears that in the twentieth century children of Eastern European, mainly Jewish immigrants were trying to get rid of the European past of their parents as quickly as possible in order to take the full advantage of American culture. This attitude brought serious changes in family values, social ties, and religious traditions among immigrants’ children, which was vividly presented in Kazin’s works. Moving straight toward their American future often meant leaving the Old World heritage and language behind. Many of the immigrant children regarded this type of attitude as another logical step in their development. But although this incorporation into the mainstream of the American culture was fruitful, some of them experienced a deep sense of irreversible loss over their past.

The ‘Yidishe Paganini’: Sholem Aleichem's Stempenyu, the Music of Yiddish Theatre and the Character of the Shtetl Fiddler

2014 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S. Walden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Character Type ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

ABSTRACTThis article explores the music of Yiddish theatre in early twentieth-century New York by considering multiple adaptations of Russian Jewish author Sholem Aleichem's 1888 novel Stempenyu, about a klezmer violinist, which was transformed into two theatrical productions in 1907 and 1929, and finally inspired a three-movement recital work for accompanied violin by Joseph Achron. The multiple versions of Stempenyu present the eponymous musician as an allegory for the ambivalent role of the shtetl – the predominantly Jewish small town of Eastern Europe – in defining diasporic Jewish life in Europe and America, and as a medium for the sonic representation of shtetl culture as it was reformulated in the memories of the first generations of Jewish immigrants. The variations in the evocations of Eastern European klezmer in these renderings of Stempenyu indicate complex changes in the ways Jewish immigrants and their children conceived of their connection to Eastern Europe over four decades. The paper concludes by viewing changes in the symbolic character type of the shtetl fiddler in its most famous and recent manifestation, in the stage and screen musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Future

This conclusion explains how American temporalities changed after the war and sketches how expectations and anticipations of the future have alternated as the dominant view in American culture through the twentieth century to today. This chapter also shows how the short war myth, the story that Civil War Americans expected a short, glorious war at the outset, gained currency with the public and consensus among scholars during the postwar period. It contrasts the wartime expectations of individuals with their postwar memories of the war’s beginning to show how the short war myth worked as a tool for sectional reconciliation and a narrative device that dramatized the war by creating an innocent antebellum era or golden age before the cataclysm. It considers why historians still accept the myth and showcases three postwar voices that challenged it.

Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax Linnaeus, 1758) Number Observation on the Rostov Nature Reserve Grounds the Middle of 20th Century to 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Victor A. Minoranskiy ◽  
Yulia V. Malinovskaya ◽  
Vasily I. Dankov ◽  
Sergey I. Kolesnikov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Steppe Species ◽  
Animal Tracking ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Tetrax Tetrax

The purpose of the work. Elucidation of changes in the number and distribution of little bustard (Tetrax tetrax Linnaeus, 1758) on the territory of the Rostov Nature Reserve in the 20th-21st centuries and the reasons for their transformation. Place and methods of work. The reserve is located in the arid Eastern European steppes. The authors used their own observations from 1959 and publications on Tetrax tetrax L. The materials are collected using regular route methods and animal tracking at individual sites, as well as analysis of published information. Results. The little bustard is a characteristic steppe species that historically lived on the Don land. Since the mid-twentieth century, the steppes have experienced deep anthropogenic changes, which have had a great impact on this species. Currently, the little bustard in the steppe zone is a rare species. The creation of the reserve has had a positive impact on this species. In it, the little bustard is a small breeding species, and its number is constrained by a number of factors. The intensification of economic activity in the region and the aridization of the climate make it necessary to improve environmental protection work.

Filipino American Culture and Family: Guidelines for Practitioners

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 429-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Agbayani-Siewert
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Filipino Americans ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Marital Relations

The author introduces relevant information about Filipino American culture and families in three subcategories: family and extended-family values, marital relations, and children. Guidelines for social work practice with Filipino Americans are offered.

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