CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Abels, Pamela Joy |
|---|---|
| Title | Paths to Americanization: Jewish Voices from Pittsburgh |
| Summary | This paper considers the various claims made in well-known literature on American Jewry regarding the struggle of American Jews of varying backgrounds to assimilate to American life. Furthermore this paper is an effort to explore and highlight the various paths differing groups of Jews took as a means to “become American” while maintaining a connection to Judaism, or Jewishness. In particular and largely due to the complex and diverse nature of American Jewish communities, a specific case study of American Jewish communities in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is contributed as a means to thoroughly scrutinize the complexity of Jewish problems within Americanization. The first chapter deals with the topic of Americanization. The thorough discussion of the diverse understandings of Americanization is presented followed by a consideration of newspaper discourses largely from the Anglo-Jewish press in Pittsburgh. The second chapter introduces the concept of the Jewish subculture in the American scene as a whole and also the local Jewish subculture in Pittsburgh. Spatial analysis of the different groups of Jews in the city is also provided in this chapter. In the third chapter institutions are the focus. By observing the various Jewish institutions established by Jews in Pittsburgh, we gain a deeper understanding of subculture and also Americanization. In concluding the study, I evaluate the notion of Jewishness over Judaism, which allegedly manifests in the American setting around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. |
| Supervisor | Wilke, Carsten |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/abels_pamela.pdf |
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