These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925 by Reena Sigman Friedman Discount Sydney Schulman

Sydney Schulman

With uncommon perception and wit

Science fiction in Yiddish

but an unexpected harvest of new songs

These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925 by Reena Sigman Friedman Discount Sydney SchulmanThe large influx of Eastern European Jewish immigrants into the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries signaled a dramatic change not just in American society as a whole but also in the existing American Jewish community. As the population of Eastern European Jews grew, so did the need to care for their orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children. In These Are Our Children, Reena Sigman Friedman studies three representative