William B Helmreich
Biographic Data
| ID | 293616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William B Helmreich |
| GIVEN NAMES | William B |
| FAMILY NAME | Helmreich |
| SIGNATURE | HELMREICH W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1541 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
The Taming of New York's Washington Square: A Wild Civility
The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
Asylums
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
The Underlife of a Public Institution 1
The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization 1
On The Characteristics of Total Institutions 1
The things they say behind your back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them
In this groundbreaking book in the dim world of opinion formation Helmreich opens a closet bursting with skeletons and explores the myths and historical roots of stereotypes pertaining to several ethnic groups: Are Jews really smarter? What about rhythmical Blacks, hard-drinking Irishmen, dumb Poles, emotional Hispanics, and all those cold, artificial WASPs sipping inevitable dry martinis? He discusses which stereotypes are false, which are t…
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
First published in 1961, Erving Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates had a profound impact on the understanding of the social world of the hospital, prison and other 'total institutions'. This Routledge Classics edition allows a new generation of readers to benefit from Goffman's penetrating analysis of the ways in which institutions such as asylums and prisons dramatically reshape the self. Goffm…
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York
Book Review| April 01 2003 Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York, Rhonda F. Levine. William B. Helmreich William B. Helmreich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501332 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Ilya Ehrenburg & Vasily Grossman: The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry translated and edited by David Patterson. Foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers), 579 …
Books in review
The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and MetroWest
Sklare Distinguished Scholar the holocaust after fifty years
Books in review
Against all Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom…
Books in review
Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York.Moshe Shokeid
Research Report: Postwar Adaptation of Holocaust Survivors in the United State
Journal Article RESEARCH REPORT: POSTWAR ADAPTATION OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN THE UNITED STATE Get access WILLIAM B. HELMREICH WILLIAM B. HELMREICH City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 307–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.2.307 Published: 01 February 1987
Books in review
The Things They Say Behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry
The World of the Yeshiva
Journal Article The World of the Yeshiva, by William B. Helmreich. Riverside, N.J.: Free Press, 1982, 384 pp. $19.95 Get access Betty C. Levine Betty C. Levine Indiana UniversityIndianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 4, Winter 1983, Pages 360–362, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711619 Published: 01 December 1983
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
First published in 1961, Erving Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates had a profound impact on the understanding of the social world of the hospital, prison and other 'total institutions'. This Routledge Classics edition allows a new generation of readers to benefit from Goffman's penetrating analysis of the ways in which institutions such as asylums and prisons dramatically reshape the self. Goffm…
Black Crusaders: The rise and fall of political gangs
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Black Crusaders: The rise and fall of political gangs
Afro-Americans and Africa: Anthropological and Sociological Investigations
Africa and Black Nationalism in America: Review Essay
Natives and ethnics
Afro-Americans and Africa: Black Nationalism at the Crossroads
Afro-Americans and Africa: Black Nationalism at the Crossroads
The Unmaking of the Jewish Working Class
Making the awful meaningful
The Things They Say Behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry
The World of the Yeshiva
Journal Article The World of the Yeshiva, by William B. Helmreich. Riverside, N.J.: Free Press, 1982, 384 pp. $19.95 Get access Betty C. Levine Betty C. Levine Indiana UniversityIndianapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 4, Winter 1983, Pages 360–362, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711619 Published: 01 December 1983
Books in review
Research Report: Postwar Adaptation of Holocaust Survivors in the United State
Journal Article RESEARCH REPORT: POSTWAR ADAPTATION OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN THE UNITED STATE Get access WILLIAM B. HELMREICH WILLIAM B. HELMREICH City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 307–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.2.307 Published: 01 February 1987
Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York.Moshe Shokeid
Books in review
Books in review
Against all Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom…
Sklare Distinguished Scholar the holocaust after fifty years
The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and MetroWest
Ilya Ehrenburg & Vasily Grossman: The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry translated and edited by David Patterson. Foreword by Irving Louis Horowitz (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers), 579 …
Books in review
Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York
Book Review| April 01 2003 Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York, Rhonda F. Levine. William B. Helmreich William B. Helmreich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501332 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (7 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works)