Daniel Soyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 533386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Soyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Soyer |
| SIGNATURE | SOYER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: The Emerging Jewish Metropolis
CHAPTER 1. Neighborhood Networks
CHAPTER 4. Immigrant Citadels: Tenements, Shops, Stores, and Streets
CHAPTER 7. Jews and New York Culture
CHAPTER 3. Moorish Manhattan
Conclusion: Th e Jewish Metropolis at the End of the Immigrant Era
CHAPTER 2. “Radical Reform”: Union through Charity
CHAPTER 6. Jews at the Polls: Th e Rise of the Jewish Style in New York Politics
Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the a…
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture
How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? To answer this question this book examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society. Focusing on New York this study explores the organizations' full range of activities, and aims to show how the newcomers exercised a high degree of agen…
Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Journal Article Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. Get access Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. (The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History.) New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 297. $35.00. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Fordham University [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish cityEmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, …
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914
Journal Article The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914 Get access The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914. By Cornelia Wilhelm. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. xii, 361 pp. $44.95.) Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Fordham UniversityBronx, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class, by Eli Lederhendler
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class, by Eli Lederhendler, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xxiv + 224 pp., $24.99 (paper), $85 (cloth), ISBN: 978052
Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity
Book Review| July 01 2005 Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity, Vincent J. Cheng. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501649 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Soyer; Inauthentic: T…
Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership
Book Review| April 01 2001 Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership, Naomi W. Cohen. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 157–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502723 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Soyer; Jacob H…
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Book Review| July 01 2001 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917, Matthew Frye Jacobson. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 92–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502750 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Class Conscious Workers as Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Ambiguity of Class among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(2001). Class Conscious Workers as Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Ambiguity of Class among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Labor History: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 45-59
Back to the Future: American Jews Visit the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s
In his fictionalized account of his trip to Poland in 1934, the Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein describes how he met a fellow New Yorker who was traveling to the Soviet Union. The man, a Russian-speaking Jewish dentist, had two aims for his journey. One was to visit his native city of Odessa and to show it off to his son, who accompanied him. The second was to see a revolutionary society in action. The successful former immigrant's enlightened circl…
"Entering the "Tent of Abraham: Fraternal Ritual and American-Jewish Identity, 1880-1920
One evening in 1893, a young Jewish immigrant named William Bakst joined the New York mutual-aid association made up of his compatriots from the Lithuanian town of Oshmene. The strange ceremony that marked his induction made a deep impression on him. He found especially striking the regalia that seemed utterly to transform the presiding officer, whom Bakst knew by his familiar old-country nickname. “When the inside-guard led me to the president,”…
Documenting Immigrant Lives at an Immigrant Institution: Yivo's Autobiography Contest of 1942
n 1942 the Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, or Yivo) organized a competition for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant to Itself an immigrant institution, having relocated its center from Vilna to New York just two years before, Yivo asked contestants to write on the theme, Why I left Europe and what I have accomplished in America. The instructions made clear that the institute wanted accounts covering all a…
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Journal Article Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939. By Daniel Soyer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 291 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-44417-5) Get access Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/1…
Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Back to the Future: American Jews Visit the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s
In his fictionalized account of his trip to Poland in 1934, the Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein describes how he met a fellow New Yorker who was traveling to the Soviet Union. The man, a Russian-speaking Jewish dentist, had two aims for his journey. One was to visit his native city of Odessa and to show it off to his son, who accompanied him. The second was to see a revolutionary society in action. The successful former immigrant's enlightened circl…
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Book Review| July 01 2001 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917, Matthew Frye Jacobson. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 92–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502750 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914
Journal Article The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914 Get access The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914. By Cornelia Wilhelm. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. xii, 361 pp. $44.95.) Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Fordham UniversityBronx, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
"Entering the "Tent of Abraham: Fraternal Ritual and American-Jewish Identity, 1880-1920
One evening in 1893, a young Jewish immigrant named William Bakst joined the New York mutual-aid association made up of his compatriots from the Lithuanian town of Oshmene. The strange ceremony that marked his induction made a deep impression on him. He found especially striking the regalia that seemed utterly to transform the presiding officer, whom Bakst knew by his familiar old-country nickname. “When the inside-guard led me to the president,”…
Documenting Immigrant Lives at an Immigrant Institution: Yivo's Autobiography Contest of 1942
n 1942 the Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, or Yivo) organized a competition for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant to Itself an immigrant institution, having relocated its center from Vilna to New York just two years before, Yivo asked contestants to write on the theme, Why I left Europe and what I have accomplished in America. The instructions made clear that the institute wanted accounts covering all a…
Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939
Journal Article Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939. By Daniel Soyer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 291 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-44417-5) Get access Jonathan D. Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/1…
"Entering the "Tent of Abraham: Fraternal Ritual and American-Jewish Identity, 1880-1920
One evening in 1893, a young Jewish immigrant named William Bakst joined the New York mutual-aid association made up of his compatriots from the Lithuanian town of Oshmene. The strange ceremony that marked his induction made a deep impression on him. He found especially striking the regalia that seemed utterly to transform the presiding officer, whom Bakst knew by his familiar old-country nickname. “When the inside-guard led me to the president,”…
Documenting Immigrant Lives at an Immigrant Institution: Yivo's Autobiography Contest of 1942
n 1942 the Yiddish Scientific Institute (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, or Yivo) organized a competition for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant to Itself an immigrant institution, having relocated its center from Vilna to New York just two years before, Yivo asked contestants to write on the theme, Why I left Europe and what I have accomplished in America. The instructions made clear that the institute wanted accounts covering all a…
Back to the Future: American Jews Visit the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s
In his fictionalized account of his trip to Poland in 1934, the Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein describes how he met a fellow New Yorker who was traveling to the Soviet Union. The man, a Russian-speaking Jewish dentist, had two aims for his journey. One was to visit his native city of Odessa and to show it off to his son, who accompanied him. The second was to see a revolutionary society in action. The successful former immigrant's enlightened circl…
Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership
Book Review| April 01 2001 Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership, Naomi W. Cohen. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 157–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502723 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Soyer; Jacob H…
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Book Review| July 01 2001 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917, Matthew Frye Jacobson. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 92–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502750 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Class Conscious Workers as Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Ambiguity of Class among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(2001). Class Conscious Workers as Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Ambiguity of Class among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Labor History: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 45-59
Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity
Book Review| July 01 2005 Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity Inauthentic: The Anxiety over Culture and Identity, Vincent J. Cheng. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (4): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501649 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Soyer; Inauthentic: T…
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class, by Eli Lederhendler
Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class, by Eli Lederhendler, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xxiv + 224 pp., $24.99 (paper), $85 (cloth), ISBN: 978052
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914
Journal Article The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914 Get access The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843–1914. By Cornelia Wilhelm. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. xii, 361 pp. $44.95.) Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Fordham UniversityBronx, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish cityEmerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, …
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage
Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Journal Article Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. Get access Adam D. Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. (The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History.) New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 297. $35.00. Daniel Soyer Daniel Soyer Fordham University [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture
How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? To answer this question this book examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society. Focusing on New York this study explores the organizations' full range of activities, and aims to show how the newcomers exercised a high degree of agen…
Introduction: The Emerging Jewish Metropolis
CHAPTER 1. Neighborhood Networks
CHAPTER 4. Immigrant Citadels: Tenements, Shops, Stores, and Streets
CHAPTER 7. Jews and New York Culture
CHAPTER 3. Moorish Manhattan
Conclusion: Th e Jewish Metropolis at the End of the Immigrant Era
CHAPTER 2. “Radical Reform”: Union through Charity
CHAPTER 6. Jews at the Polls: Th e Rise of the Jewish Style in New York Politics
Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the a…
History (18 works) · Judaism (17 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Immigration (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works)