David A Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 223965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7972-5228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Letters and Immigrants
Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant Epistolarity and the Culture of Emigration
Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family
When Correspondence Wanes
Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York
Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity
Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm
Traditions of Inquiry
Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting
Collections of Letters Consulted
Forming Selves in Letters
Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction traces three massive waves of immigration from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and analyzes the nature of immigration as a purposeful, structured activity, attitudes supporting or hostile to immigration, policies and laws regulating immigration, and the nature of and prospects for assimilation. There have been some dramatic developments since 2011, including the crisis along the southwest…
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story
Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how the…
Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present
Book Review| July 01 2018 Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present. Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present., Edited by Marjory Harper. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xv + 280 pp. Index. $99 (cloth). David A. Gerber David A. Gerber University at Buffalo David A. Gerber is Professor of History Emeritus and Senior Fellow in History at the University at Buffalo. He is author of “Moving Backward and Moving On: Nostalgia, Significant Oth…
The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
Book Review| July 01 2016 The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate. By Jeanne D. Petit. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010. xii + 201 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). David A. Gerber David A. Gerber University at Buffalo (SUNY) David A. Gerber is Professor Emeritus at the Un…
Moving backward and moving on: Nostalgia, significant others, and social reintegration in nineteenth-century British immigrant personal correspondence
Nostalgia among immigrants frequently has been conceived of as a brooding and obsessive homesickness that leads to depression, lassitude, and neurotic misery among those who have left their original home and resettled elsewhere. Recent social psychological, literary and philosophical work, however, has sought a reformulation of nostalgia that instead emphasizes the positive uses to which memory, even painful memory, may be put in the effort to co…
The Uprooted Would Never Have Been Written If Oscar Handlin Had Taken His Own, Latter-Day Advice
Research Article| April 01 2013 The Uprooted Would Never Have Been Written If Oscar Handlin Had Taken His Own, Latter-Day Advice David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (3): 68–77. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.3.0068 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Gerber; The Uproot…
Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States
Journal Article Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States Get access Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States. Ed. by Stephen R. Ortiz. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xvi, 318 pp. $69.95.) David A. Gerber David A. Gerber University at BuffaloState University of New YorkBuffalo, New York [email protected] Search for o…
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction examines the many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not an American. It looks at immigration from the perspective of the migrant — farmers and industrial workers, mechanics and domestics, highly trained professionals and small-business owners — who willingly upped sticks for the promise of a better life. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and have been br…
Arguing Judaism, Negotiating Jewish Identity
Book Review| October 01 2011 Arguing Judaism, Negotiating Jewish Identity Becoming American Jews: Temple Beth Israel of Boston. By Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2009. xvii + 259 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $24.95 (paper).Orthodox Jews in America. By Jeffrey S. Gurock. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2009. ix + 381 pp. Photos, illust…
Creating Group Identity: Disabled Veterans and American Government
The war disabled are in the news again, and the story is alarming and gloomy. Early in the coverage of this fast emerging, twenty-first century veterans' problem, a tone of surprise inflected news reports, with only an occasional nod given to the problem's deep historical precedents within the American experience. This problem should be no surprise. As long as war has existed, it has produced victims with physical and psychological injuries. Of c…
Yankeys Now: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley’s Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation
Research Article| April 01 2009 "Yankeys Now"?: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley's Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 7–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
The Ground Truth ‐ Directed by Patricia Foulkrod
Heroes and Misfits: "The Troubled Social Reintegration of Disabled Veterans in "The Best Years of Our Lives
s him from the workaday social world. People with disabilities increasingly have come to recognize this constricted conception of the disabled a fundamental source of their oppression.44 Of course, if one finds Homer's response to his handlessness plausible, such criticism seems a hopeless case of substituting a contemporary, ideologically driven viewpoint for the complexity of the real of the mid-1940s Wyler had hoped to capture. How then are Th…
Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century
Research Article| July 01 2000 Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (4): 3–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502611 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Gerber; Epistolary Ethics: Person…
Disabled Veterans, the State, and the Experience of Disability in Western Societies, 1914-1950
Journal Article Disabled Veterans, the State, and the Experience of Disability in Western Societies, 1914–1950 Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14260-4130 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 36, Issue 4, Summer 2003, Pages 899–916, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0095 Published: 01 July 2003
Anti-Semitism in American History
Journal Article Anti-Semitism in American History. Ed. by David A. Gerber. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. vi + 428 pp. $29.95.) Get access Leon A. Jick Leon A. Jick State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1006–1007, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904066 Published: 01 March 1987
Cutting Out Shylock: Elite Anti-Semitism and the Quest for Moral Order in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Market Place
Journal Article Cutting Out Shylock: Elite Anti-Semitism and the Quest for Moral Order in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Market Place Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber associate professor of history State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 615–637, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903140 Published: 01…
Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters: Personal identity and Self-Presentation in Personal Correspondence
Journal Article Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters: Personal identity and Self-Presentation in Personal Correspondence Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Department of History, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Winter 2005, Pages 315–330, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2005.0136 Published: …
Yankeys Now: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley’s Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation
Research Article| April 01 2009 "Yankeys Now"?: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley's Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation David A. Gerber David A. Gerber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (3): 7–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543426 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Anger and Affability: The Rise and Representation of a Repertory of Self-Presentation Skills in a World War II Disabled Veteran
Journal Article Anger and Affability: The Rise and Representation of a Repertory of Self-Presentation Skills in a World War II Disabled Veteran Get access David Gerber David Gerber Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, Park Hall, Amherst, NY 14260 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 27, Issue 1, Fall 1993, Pages 5–27, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/27.1.…
The Pathos of Exile: Old Lutheran Refugees in the United States and South Australia
Beginning in 1613, when the Prussian royal family converted to Calvinism while the vast majority of its subjects remained part of the state-regulated Lutheran church, the Hohenzollern kings found themselves living with an anomalous religious situation. Royal discontent with this circumstance had always existed, but efforts to bring about a change failed until, in the years after the Napoleonic Wars, Frederick William III resolved to take decisive…
Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present
Book Review| July 01 2018 Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present. Migration and Mental Health: Past and Present., Edited by Marjory Harper. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xv + 280 pp. Index. $99 (cloth). David A. Gerber David A. Gerber University at Buffalo David A. Gerber is Professor of History Emeritus and Senior Fellow in History at the University at Buffalo. He is author of “Moving Backward and Moving On: Nostalgia, Significant Oth…
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Elia T. Zureik, THE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL. A STUDY IN INTERNAL COLONIALISM. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, xi, 249, £8.50 Helen Fein. ACCOUNTING FOR GENOCIDE. New York: The Free Press, 1979, xxi, 468. n.p. Sammy Smooha, ISRAEL: PLURALISM AND CONFLICT. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, International Library of Sociology, 1978, 462 pp., Price £12.50. Howard Rabinowitz, RACE RELATIONS IN THE URBAN SOUTH, 1865–1890, Oxford University Press, 1978, p…
A Politics of Limited Options: Northern Black Politics and the Problem of Change and Continuity in Race Relations Historiography
Journal Article A Politics of Limited Options: Northern Black Politics and the Problem of Change and Continuity in Race Relations Historiography Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 1980, Pages 235–255, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.2.235 Published: 01 December 1980
The Black Experience: American Blacks Since 1865
Journal Article The Black Experience: American Blacks Since 1865. By Mary Ellison. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1974. 334 pp. Tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $14.50.) Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 142–143, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901351 Published…
Segregation, Separatism, and Sectarianism: Ohio Blacks and Wilberforce University's Effort to Obtain Federal Funds, 1891
David A. Gerber, Segregation, Separatism, and Sectarianism: Ohio Blacks and Wilberforce University's Effort to Obtain Federal Funds, 1891, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Winter, 1976), pp. 1-20
Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915
Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860-1915
Journal Article Black Ohio and the Color Line, 1860–1915. By David A. Gerber. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. xii + 500 pp. Map, tables, notes, note on sources, and index. $14.95.) Get access David M. Tucker David M. Tucker Memphis State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 1977, Page 804, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887292 Published…
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Ray Marshall, Charles B. Knapp, Malcolm H. Ligget, Robert W. Glover, EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: THE IMPACT OF LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES Praeger, New York, 1978, pp. 176, £15.50. Dan S. Green and Edwin D. Driver (eds), W. E. B. DUBOIS ON SOCIOLOGY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1978, viii + 320 pp., $21.00. Anthony D. Smith, NATIONALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Martin Robertson, 1979. 232pp., £3.…
Short reviews
Elia T. Zureik, THE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL. A STUDY IN INTERNAL COLONIALISM. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, xi, 249, £8.50 Helen Fein. ACCOUNTING FOR GENOCIDE. New York: The Free Press, 1979, xxi, 468. n.p. Sammy Smooha, ISRAEL: PLURALISM AND CONFLICT. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, International Library of Sociology, 1978, 462 pp., Price £12.50. Howard Rabinowitz, RACE RELATIONS IN THE URBAN SOUTH, 1865–1890, Oxford University Press, 1978, p…
Short reviews
Michael Billig, FASCISTS: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE NATIONAL FRONT, London; Academic Press, 1978, 393pp., £16.50. David J. Smith, OVERSEAS DOCTORS IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, Policy Studies Institute/Heinemann Educational Books, London, 1980, xii + 295pp., £12.50. G. Orfield, MUST WE BUS?: SEGREGATED SCHOOLS & NATIONAL POLICY, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1978, £12.95. A. Liebman , JEWS AND THE LEFT, New York, John Wiley…
A Politics of Limited Options: Northern Black Politics and the Problem of Change and Continuity in Race Relations Historiography
Journal Article A Politics of Limited Options: Northern Black Politics and the Problem of Change and Continuity in Race Relations Historiography Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 1980, Pages 235–255, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.2.235 Published: 01 December 1980
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Ernest Cashmore, RASTAMAN: THE RASTAFARIAN MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1979, 263 pp., £10.00 (h.b), £3.95 (p.b.). Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg and John Adams, THE BLACK HOMELANDS OF SOUTH AFRICA: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BOPHU‐THATSWANA AND KWAZULU, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977, 250 pp., £9.35 Newell M. Stultz, TRANSKEI'S HALF LOAF: RACE SEPARATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, New Haven, Yale Uni…
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Robert H. Davies, CAPITAL, STATE AND WHITE LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1900–1960: A HISTORICAL MATERIALIST ANALYSIS OF CLASS FORMATION AND CLASS RELATIONS, New York, Harvester Press, 1979, 414 pp., £20. Thomas G. Dyer, THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE IDEA OF RACE, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1980, xiii + 180 pp., $14.95. Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee, ETHNIC POWER MOBILIZED: CAN SOUTH AFRICA CHANGE? New Haven and London, …
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Journal Article Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed. by Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, and Oscar Handlin. (Cambridge: Belknap, 1980. xxv + 1076 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, and bibliographies. $60.00) Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 94–95, https:…
Cutting Out Shylock: Elite Anti-Semitism and the Quest for Moral Order in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Market Place
Journal Article Cutting Out Shylock: Elite Anti-Semitism and the Quest for Moral Order in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Market Place Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber associate professor of history State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 615–637, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903140 Published: 01…
Hearth and Home: Preserving a People's Culture
Journal Article Hearth and Home: Pieseiving a People's Culture. By George W. McDaniel. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. xxiv + 297 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pag…
Modernity in the Service of Tradition: Catholic Lay Trustees at Buffalo's St. Louis Church and the Transformation of European Communal Traditions, 1829--1855
Journal Article Modernity in the Service of Tradition: Catholic Lay Trustees at Buffalo's St. Louis Church and the Transformation of European Communal Traditions, 1829—1855 Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber SUNY/Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 15, Issue 4, Summer 1982, Pages 655–684, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/15.4.655 Published: 01 July 1982
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F. W. Boal and J. Neville H. Douglas (eds), INTEGRATION AND DIVISON: GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE NORTHERN IRELAND PROBLEM, Academic Press, London 1982, 368 pp., £19.80, $41.00. David Sutcliffe, BRITISH BLACK ENGLISH, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, 210 pp., £14.95. Ashok Ohri, Basil Manning and Paul Curno (eds), COMMUNITY WORK AND RACISM, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982, 185 pp., £5.95. John Tierney (ed.), RACE, MIGRATION AND SCHOOLING, …
The Melting Pot and the Altar: Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth Century Wisconsin
The Pathos of Exile: Old Lutheran Refugees in the United States and South Australia
Beginning in 1613, when the Prussian royal family converted to Calvinism while the vast majority of its subjects remained part of the state-regulated Lutheran church, the Hohenzollern kings found themselves living with an anomalous religious situation. Royal discontent with this circumstance had always existed, but efforts to bring about a change failed until, in the years after the Napoleonic Wars, Frederick William III resolved to take decisive…
Ambivalent Friends: Afro-Americans View the Immigrant
Going to School, Going to America: The Jewish Immigrant-Public School Encounter in Turn of the Century New York City
George Washington: The Forging of a Nation
George Washington: The Forging of a Nation. Prod. by David Gerber. CBS Television, 1986. 4 hrs. broadcast time. Get access Don Higginbotham Don Higginbotham University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1109, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902248 Published: 01 December 1987
Anti-Semitism in American History
Journal Article Anti-Semitism in American History. Ed. by David A. Gerber. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. vi + 428 pp. $29.95.) Get access Leon A. Jick Leon A. Jick State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1006–1007, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904066 Published: 01 March 1987
Antisemitism in the Contemporary World
Anti-Semitism in American History
Media and Public History: Kartemquin Films, Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining
The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio
Journal Article The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio. By Kenneth J. Winkle. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiii + 239 pp. $32.50.) Get access David A. Gerber David A. Gerber State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 594–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908025 Publish…
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