These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925 by Reena Sigman Friedman Dybbuk tracing in them a re-inscription

tracing in them a re-inscription of the Yiddish world that various characters seem to be committed to leaving behind

When local authorities deliberately slow-walk the search for the kidnappers

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These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925 by Reena Sigman Friedman Dybbuk tracing in them a re-inscriptionThe large influx of Eastern European Jewish immigrants into the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries signaled a dramatic change not just in American society as a whole but also in the existing American Jewish community. As the population of Eastern European Jews grew, so did the need to care for their orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children. In These Are Our Children, Reena Sigman Friedman studies three representative