Victor Greene
Biographic Data
| ID | 175048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Greene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Greene |
| SIGNATURE | GREENE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Polish American Encyclopedia
Deep Polka: Dance Music from the MidwestDeeper Polka: More Dance Music from the Midwest
Book Review| February 01 2011 Deep Polka: Dance Music from the MidwestDeeper Polka: More Dance Music from the Midwest Deep Polka: Dance Music from the Midwest. 1998. Compiled and annotated by Richard March. Smithsonian Folkways SFW40088. One compact disc. Booklet (26 pp.) in English with photographs, song texts, and translations. 62 minutes.Deeper Polka: More Dance Music from the Midwest. 2002. Compiled and annotated by Richard March. Smithsonian…
Dealing with Diversity: Milwaukee's Multiethnic Festivals and Urban Identity, 1840-1940
This article is a history of howMilwaukee urban leaders treated their diverse, ethnic communities by “ Americanizing” them. The Milwaukee experience with their immigrants was both similar to and distinctive of other American cities. Basing their reception on the German tradition of fellowship as other midwestern centers, Milwaukeeans were unique throughout in combining a love for promoting the ethnic diversity of dress, music, and dance with teac…
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
Book Review| October 01 2003 American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, Mark Slobin. Victor Greene Victor Greene Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501407 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor Greene; American Klezmer: Its Roots and…
An Encyclopedia of Ethnic Neighbors and Their Music
Book Review| April 01 2003 An Encyclopedia of Ethnic Neighbors and Their Music American Musical Traditions, Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin. Victor Greene Victor Greene Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 85–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501318 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor Greene; An Encyclopedia of E…
Ethnic comedy in American culture
Ethnic Comedy In American Culture Victor Greene (bio) Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass, curators; Mark Akgulian, designer. Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass. Chicago: The Spertus Press, 1997. 90 pages. $16.95. It was only about seventy years ago that a scholar, Constance Rourke, first covered the subject of American …
Worlds of Immigrants: The Creation of Polonian Cleveland, 1880-1930
Journal Article Światy imigrantów: Tworzenie polonijnego Cleveland, 1880–1930 (Worlds of immigrants: The creation of Polonian Cleveland, 1880–1930). By Adam Walaszek. (Krakow: Nomos, 1994. 231 pp. Paper, ISBN 83-85527-15-X.) In Polish Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, Se…
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
On a Trio of Small, Ethnic Communities
These three works on a trio of immigrant groups-Dutch, Jewish, and Chinese Americans-follow the current trend in social history that small is beautiful by concentrating on small, discrete communities: Amsterdam, Montana; Petaluma, California; and a part of New York's Chinatown. The basic criterion upon which to evaluate them is how well they illuminate larger themes in the lives and experiences of their ethnic groups as a whole. All three books s…
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
Journal Article A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. By Victor Greene. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xii, 355 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-520-07584-6.) and Polka Happiness. By Charles Keil and Angeliki V. Keil. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xii, 221 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87722-819-1.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920
Journal Article “Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880–1920.” Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. and North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1243–1247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081466 P…
Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880- 1992
Journal Article Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1992. By Dominic A. Pacyga. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xiv + 298 pp. $40.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/207978…
American Immigrant Leaders, 1800-1910: Marginality and Identity
Ethnic History from the Middle Up
American Immigrant Leaders, 1800-1910: Marginality and Identity
Journal Article American Immigrant Leaders, 1800–1910: Marginality and Identity. By Victor R. Greene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xiii + 181 pp. $22.50). Get access A. William Hoglund A. William Hoglund University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 606–607, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887907 Published: 01 …
Immigrants and Their Children in the United States: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982
Journal Article Immigrants and Their Children in the United States: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885–1982. By A. William Hoglund. (New York: Garland, 1986. xxix + 491 pp. $70.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Page 1101, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904177 Publi…
Labor and Immigration in Industrial America
Journal Article Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. By Robert D. Parmet. (Boston: Twayne, 1981. 268 pp. Illustration, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.95.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893882 Published: 01 …
Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915
Journal Article Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845–1915. By Steven Hertzberg. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1978. xiii + 325 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $12.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 3…
For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910
Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890-1930
Journal Article Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890–1930. By Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper. (Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975. x + 212 pp. Map, illustrations, and note. $14.95.) Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene National Humanities Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Page 736, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910
Journal Article For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860–1910. By Victor Greene. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975. x + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $17.50.) Get access Edward R. Kantowicz Edward R. Kantowicz Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
The Croatian Immigrants in America
Journal Article The Croatian Immigrants in America. By George J. Prpic. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1971. xiii + 519 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $11.95.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.…
The Irish in the United States
Journal Article The Irish in the United States. By John B. Duff. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1971. 87 pp. Illustrations, chart, and sources.) Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 396–397, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890202 Published: 01 September 1972
The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite
Journal Article The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite. By Victor R. Greene. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. xvi + 260 pp. Map, notes, and index. $6.95.) Get access George B. Engberg George B. Engberg University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Page 155, https://doi.org/10.2307/19…
The Slavic Community on Strike. Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite
For God and Country: The Origins of Slavic Catholic Self-Consciousness in America
America made its immigrants ethnocentric. Except for the travelers from England, every other nationality sensed its cultural distinctiveness soon after settling here with countrymen. The process of identity-consciousness went on continually with every group. In a strange and unknown environment, newcomers, particularly the least Anglo-Saxon, joined their fellows for a security of continuity, yearning for that Old World basis of religion, language…
Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915
Journal Article Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845–1915. By Steven Hertzberg. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1978. xiii + 325 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $12.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 3…
Ethnic comedy in American culture
Ethnic Comedy In American Culture Victor Greene (bio) Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass, curators; Mark Akgulian, designer. Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass. Chicago: The Spertus Press, 1997. 90 pages. $16.95. It was only about seventy years ago that a scholar, Constance Rourke, first covered the subject of American …
Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920
Journal Article “Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880–1920.” Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. and North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1243–1247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081466 P…
Dealing with Diversity: Milwaukee's Multiethnic Festivals and Urban Identity, 1840-1940
This article is a history of howMilwaukee urban leaders treated their diverse, ethnic communities by “ Americanizing” them. The Milwaukee experience with their immigrants was both similar to and distinctive of other American cities. Basing their reception on the German tradition of fellowship as other midwestern centers, Milwaukeeans were unique throughout in combining a love for promoting the ethnic diversity of dress, music, and dance with teac…
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
Book Review| October 01 2003 American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, Mark Slobin. Victor Greene Victor Greene Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501407 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor Greene; American Klezmer: Its Roots and…
The United States and Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century
For God and Country: The Origins of Slavic Catholic Self-Consciousness in America
America made its immigrants ethnocentric. Except for the travelers from England, every other nationality sensed its cultural distinctiveness soon after settling here with countrymen. The process of identity-consciousness went on continually with every group. In a strange and unknown environment, newcomers, particularly the least Anglo-Saxon, joined their fellows for a security of continuity, yearning for that Old World basis of religion, language…
The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite
Journal Article The Slavic Community on Strike: Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite. By Victor R. Greene. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. xvi + 260 pp. Map, notes, and index. $6.95.) Get access George B. Engberg George B. Engberg University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Page 155, https://doi.org/10.2307/19…
The Slavic Community on Strike. Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite
The Croatian Immigrants in America
Journal Article The Croatian Immigrants in America. By George J. Prpic. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1971. xiii + 519 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $11.95.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.…
The Irish in the United States
Journal Article The Irish in the United States. By John B. Duff. (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1971. 87 pp. Illustrations, chart, and sources.) Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 396–397, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890202 Published: 01 September 1972
For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910
Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890-1930
Journal Article Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890–1930. By Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper. (Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975. x + 212 pp. Map, illustrations, and note. $14.95.) Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene National Humanities Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Page 736, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910
Journal Article For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860–1910. By Victor Greene. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1975. x + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $17.50.) Get access Edward R. Kantowicz Edward R. Kantowicz Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915
Journal Article Strangers within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845–1915. By Steven Hertzberg. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1978. xiii + 325 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $12.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 3…
Labor and Immigration in Industrial America
Journal Article Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. By Robert D. Parmet. (Boston: Twayne, 1981. 268 pp. Illustration, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.95.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893882 Published: 01 …
Immigrants and Their Children in the United States: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982
Journal Article Immigrants and Their Children in the United States: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885–1982. By A. William Hoglund. (New York: Garland, 1986. xxix + 491 pp. $70.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Page 1101, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904177 Publi…
Ethnic History from the Middle Up
American Immigrant Leaders, 1800-1910: Marginality and Identity
Journal Article American Immigrant Leaders, 1800–1910: Marginality and Identity. By Victor R. Greene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xiii + 181 pp. $22.50). Get access A. William Hoglund A. William Hoglund University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 606–607, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887907 Published: 01 …
American Immigrant Leaders, 1800-1910: Marginality and Identity
Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880- 1992
Journal Article Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1992. By Dominic A. Pacyga. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xiv + 298 pp. $40.00.) Get access Victor Greene Victor Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/207978…
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
On a Trio of Small, Ethnic Communities
These three works on a trio of immigrant groups-Dutch, Jewish, and Chinese Americans-follow the current trend in social history that small is beautiful by concentrating on small, discrete communities: Amsterdam, Montana; Petaluma, California; and a part of New York's Chinatown. The basic criterion upon which to evaluate them is how well they illuminate larger themes in the lives and experiences of their ethnic groups as a whole. All three books s…
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
Journal Article A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. By Victor Greene. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xii, 355 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-520-07584-6.) and Polka Happiness. By Charles Keil and Angeliki V. Keil. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xii, 221 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87722-819-1.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920
Journal Article “Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880–1920.” Chicago Historical Society, Clark St. and North Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1243–1247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081466 P…
Worlds of Immigrants: The Creation of Polonian Cleveland, 1880-1930
Journal Article Światy imigrantów: Tworzenie polonijnego Cleveland, 1880–1930 (Worlds of immigrants: The creation of Polonian Cleveland, 1880–1930). By Adam Walaszek. (Krakow: Nomos, 1994. 231 pp. Paper, ISBN 83-85527-15-X.) In Polish Get access Victor R. Greene Victor R. Greene University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, Se…
A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America
Ethnic comedy in American culture
Ethnic Comedy In American Culture Victor Greene (bio) Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass, curators; Mark Akgulian, designer. Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Let There Be Laughter! Jewish Humor in America. Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass. Chicago: The Spertus Press, 1997. 90 pages. $16.95. It was only about seventy years ago that a scholar, Constance Rourke, first covered the subject of American …
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
Book Review| October 01 2003 American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, Mark Slobin. Victor Greene Victor Greene Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501407 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor Greene; American Klezmer: Its Roots and…
An Encyclopedia of Ethnic Neighbors and Their Music
Book Review| April 01 2003 An Encyclopedia of Ethnic Neighbors and Their Music American Musical Traditions, Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin. Victor Greene Victor Greene Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 85–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501318 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victor Greene; An Encyclopedia of E…
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