Our Parents' Lives: Everyday Life and Jewish Assimilation

(with Neil M. Cowan)

Based on oral histories and interviews, Our Parents’ Lives is a moving narrative of how Eastern-European Jewish immigrants moved from the old world to the new. These first-generation American rejected parts of their old lives while nurturing others, with each finding a different way to answer the question of what it means to be a Jewish in America.

Our Parents’ Lives is available at Amazon.com or from used booksellers.

Contact:
Department of the History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Suite 303, Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
rcowan@sas.upenn.edu

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