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- The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its Children
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940s tell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an orphanage. Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting
the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and orphaned children.
Goldstein's ethnography demonstrates amply that children who spend years in an institution can go on to lead productive lives under certain conditions. Such conditions may never have been met in any other children's institution. That they did exist one time, however, is cause not only to rejoice but also to understand that recreating these conditions is difficult and possibly impossible.
the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and orphaned children.
Goldstein's ethnography demonstrates amply that children who spend years in an institution can go on to lead productive lives under certain conditions. Such conditions may never have been met in any other children's institution. That they did exist one time, however, is cause not only to rejoice but also to understand that recreating these conditions is difficult and possibly impossible.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. xvii
- 1. Home and Community
- pp. 1-20
- 2. Orphanages: Origins
- pp. 21-48
- 3. The Home: Origins and Meanings
- pp. 49-68
- 4. Facts and Figures
- pp. 69-94
- 5. "It Wasn't Family but It Was Home"
- pp. 95-118
- 6. Life in the Home: Views from the Inside
- pp. 119-143
- 7. Lives and Meanings
- pp. 144-184
- 8. Closings
- pp. 185-214
- In Memoriam
- pp. 215-216
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 223-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817382827
Related ISBN(s)
9780817307813
MARC Record
OCLC
426057076
Pages
254
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1996