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Making Judaism Meaningful
This study focuses on the detail of the processes by which members of the Dutchville Minyan construct meaningful Judaism out of their ambivalence towards tradition exploring their worship practices, celebrations, history, conflicts.
A Matter of Comfort
Among Japanese Americans ethnicity has persisted into the third and fourth generations. It is not a stage through which they are passing on their way to assimilation. Rather, it is a focal point around which important realms of their lives are organized. This study, based on questionnaires, intervie
Demele, "making It"
A portrait of the Haitian boat people, more than one million of whom managed to find their way to the mainland of the USA following the overthrow of the Duvalier regime in 1986.
Immigrants and the Formation of Community
"The United States has experienced, since the mid-60's, a new wave of immigration comparable in importance to the mass migration of the turn of the century. It is a significant population influx which, as its predecessor, will shape the character of the country in the future. However, the more recent arrivals are very different from the "huddled masses" who came to this country in the early part of this century and the society receiving them has also undergone significant transformations. Yet, images of immigrants and the concepts used to evoke their encounter with the new environment have remained very much the same. The present work attempts to provide a different approach to the study of the immigrants' response to this encounter by looking at their process of transformation from immigrants to ethnics."--Introduction.
