Remembering the Lower East Side
American Jewish Reflections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10029709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hadassa Kosak (Yeshiva University), Hasia R Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, Beth S Wenger |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 666-666 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3092254 |
| OpenAlex | W1983880334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In the last three decades, ethnic and multicultural studies have challenged traditional concepts of collective identity. “Essentialist” notions of identity and their linear history have been replaced by new concepts of social construction, invention, and fluidity. In that context, the study of myths, traditions, heritage sites, and their attendant commemorative practices have become useful tools for understanding the persistence and malleability of collective memory. Studies of how national and ethnic groups use historically specific sites—their rituals of tourism, monuments, and museums—reveal the needs and aspirations of social groups to forge a “usable” past. The Lower East Side has become such a memory site. Although it has been a neighborhood of diverse immigrant groups since the mid-nineteenth century and, for the most part, has long been abandoned by its Jewish population, it still evokes powerful historic images for American Jews. Having moved to more respectable domiciles and later to the suburbs, Jews in contemporary America are actively searching their past for a reaffirma-tion of their ethnic beginnings and of their role in the narrative of the American multicultural saga
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Collective identity · Collective memory · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Identity (music · Immigration · Judaism · Literature · Multiculturalism · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law
Working-class heritage and the marketization of difference - the limits of new museology at Manhattan's Tenement Museum
The 'Skyscraper Settlement
Club Petroushka, Émigré Performance, and New York's Russian Nightclubs of the Roaring Twenties
Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist
Sex, Leisure and Jewish Youth Clubs in Inter-War London
A Revolution in Rising Expectations”
Democratic Renewal and Cultural Inertia
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2021 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |