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ORIGINS: DISCOURSE AND DISCORD AMONG TWO JEWISH EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

Loue, Sana
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0299-4064
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1649786572513537

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2022, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History.
Many books have been written about Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe during the early twentieth century, the reasons for their emigration from their homelands, their journey to their new countries, and the circumstances in which they found themselves. These works often assume one of two approaches: the provision of a composite picture of the immigrant experience, replete with statistics and documentary evidence, sometimes drawing piecemeal from illustrative experiences of individuals to underscore a particular point or biographies or autobiographies, many of which focus on better educated, more literate, more politically active, or more (in)famous members of the Jewish community or on Holocaust survivors. In contrast to these approaches, I examine the lives of two Jewish immigrant families at the time of their immigration to the United States, one from what is now Belarus but was once in the Pale of Settlement, and the second from what is now Poland, but also once existed within the Russian Empire. These are my families, that of my paternal and maternal grandparents. By taking this approach, we can better understand how historical events and social discourse impacted and intertwined with the lives of individual immigrants and their families and how they navigated these then-current events. Each of these chapters examines their lived experience in the context of the larger events occurring around them, over which they had no control. Each chapter refuses to fit comfortably into the master narratives that have emerged over time with regard to Jewish immigration during this period and Jewish families in general: Jewish family cohesiveness, the absence of abuse within Jewish families, Jewish abstention from alcohol. Each chapter explores, as well, the possible impact, both conscious and unconscious, of the surrounding historical events on their decisionmaking and the impact of those decisions on their family members.
Elaine Frantz (Committee Chair)
Brian Hayashi (Committee Member)
Mary Ann Heiss (Committee Member)
Sean Martin (Committee Member)
138 p.
Families and Family Life; History; Judaic Studies
Eugenics; Family; Jews; Poland; Prohibition; Russia

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  • Loue, S. (2022). ORIGINS: DISCOURSE AND DISCORD AMONG TWO JEWISH EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1649786572513537

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Loue, Sana. ORIGINS: DISCOURSE AND DISCORD AMONG TWO JEWISH EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES . 2022. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1649786572513537.

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  • Loue, Sana. "ORIGINS: DISCOURSE AND DISCORD AMONG TWO JEWISH EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1649786572513537

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