The home on Gorham Street and the voices of its children /
The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of eldersÑonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sÑtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1996.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of eldersÑonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sÑtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an Òorphanage.Ó Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382827 0817382828 |
