A Rosenberg by any other name : a history of Jewish name changing in America /
Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants' names for them. But as Kirsten Fermaglich elegantly reveals, the real story is much more profound. Scratching be...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Sean Ferguson, Winona Ryder, and other Jewish names
- Part I. The rise of Jewish name changing in New York City. 1. Too long, too foreign ... too Jewish?: developing a pattern of Jewish family name changing, 1917-1942
- 2. What's Uncle Sam's last name?: Jews and name changing in New York City during the World War II era
- Part II. The impact of Jewish name changing after World War II. 3. Changed my name: cultural debates over name changing, passing, and Jewish identity after World War II, 1945-1965
- 4. Has your surname been changed?: name changing and the politics of Civil Rights activism, 1945-1965
- Part III. The decline of Jewish name changing in the 1970s and beyond
- 5. My resentment of arbitrary authority: the decline and erasure of name changing in American Jewish society, 1965-2001
- 6. Not everyone is prepared to remake themselves: name changing in the 21st century.
