Brownsville, the Jewish Years

Brownsville, the Jewish Years PDF Author: Sylvia Siegel-Schildt
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Brownsville, Brooklyn in the 30's. 40's and 50's is recreated with an emphasis on the impact of world events and Americanization of its poor, working class Jewish population.

Brownsville, Brooklyn

Brownsville, Brooklyn PDF Author: Wendell E. Pritchett
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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The Girls

The Girls PDF Author: Carole Bell Ford
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s--the choices they made, and the boundaries within which they made them.

Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville

Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville PDF Author: Charles S. Isaacs
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438452969
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968. In 1968 the conflict that erupted over community control of the New York City public schools was centered in the black and Puerto Rican community of Ocean Hill–Brownsville. It triggered what remains the longest teachers’ strike in US history. That clash, between the city’s communities of color and the white, predominantly Jewish teachers’ union, paralyzed the nation’s largest school system, undermined the city’s economy, and heightened racial tensions, ultimately transforming the national conversation about race relations. At age twenty-two, when the strike was imminent, Charles S. Isaacs abandoned his full scholarship to a prestigious law school to teach mathematics in Ocean Hill–Brownsville. Despite his Jewish background and pro-union leanings, Isaacs crossed picket lines manned by teachers who looked like him, and took the side of parents and children who did not. He now tells the story of this conflict, not only from inside the experimental, community-controlled Ocean Hill–Brownsville district, its focal point, but from within ground zero itself: Junior High School 271, which became the nation’s most famous, or infamous, public school. Isaacs brings to life the innovative teaching practices that community control made possible, and the relationships that developed in the district among its white teachers and its black and Puerto Rican parents, teachers, and community activists. “Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville is one of the finest accounts of this turbulent time in America’s educational history. As a firsthand analysis of a teacher embroiled in the Ocean Hill–Brownsville community fight for educational justice, it has no peer. From its vantage point forty-five years after the conflict, we finally have a corrective to a plethora of secondhand analyses that have been written over the years. It is a candid picture that I recommend highly.” — Maurice R. Berube, coeditor of Confrontation at Ocean Hill–Brownsville “Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville makes a vital contribution to a much-needed reinterpretation of the epochal struggles over community control of the New York City public schools in the 1960s, and the divisive UFT fall 1968 strikes in opposition to that community-based movement. Writing from the firsthand perspective of a young Jewish math teacher at JHS 271, Isaacs brings this important story vividly to life with insight, candor, and humor. He evokes the attitudes and actions of a rich array of ordinary teachers, administrators, students, and parents who fought to defend the community-control experiment in the face of the lies and distortions perpetrated by UFT officials and the mainstream press. A must read for anyone interested in creating successful public schools, this book helps us remember what democratic public education might look like.” — Stephen Brier, The Graduate Center, City University of New York “Charles Isaacs’s Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville is a firsthand account of the dramatic events of New York City’s greatest school crisis. Isaacs debunks many of the popular myths of black militants waging assaults on teachers. Instead, he demonstrates that the episode in Ocean Hill–Brownsville was a case of black and Latino parents, with the support of a number of teachers at JHS 271, struggling for the education of their children and for a more democratically run educational system. These parents faced one of the most powerful unions in the city and a bureaucratic board of education that wanted to protect the status quo. There have been many books written on the 1968 teachers’ strike, but Isaacs’s well-written, detailed account is by far the best.” — Clarence Taylor, author of Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools

American Jewish Year Book

American Jewish Year Book PDF Author: Cyrus Adler
Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Issues for 1900/01- include report of the 12th- year of the Jewish Publication Society of America, 1890-1900- (issued also separately in some year); issues for 1908/09- include Report of the American Jewish Committee for 1906/08- (issued also separately in some years).

Jews of Brooklyn

Jews of Brooklyn PDF Author: Ilana Abramovitch
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.

Brownsville; the Brith, Development and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York

Brownsville; the Brith, Development and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York PDF Author: Alter F. Landesman
Publisher:
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Category : Brownsville, N.Y.
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia PDF Author: Isidore Singer
Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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The Nurturing Neighborhood

The Nurturing Neighborhood PDF Author: Gerald Sorin
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814779395
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Drawing heavily on the reminiscences of the Brownsville boys themselves, and skillfully integrating these with material from newspapers, books, and commentary of the time, Sorin creates an original and compelling picture of the communal and individual vitality that allowed an unusual and heartening social achievement.

American Jewish Year Book 2003

American Jewish Year Book 2003 PDF Author: David Singer
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9780874951264
Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Book Description
The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current.