Gary Polster (20 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Royal octavo in dust jacket, xiv, 240 pp., b/w photos, notes, bibliography, index.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 240 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Kent State University Press [1990]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. NEW, in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy, never even opened. 0.0.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3,500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gary Polsters study examines the efforts of the more acculturated German Jews of Cleveland to Americanize and make good workers of the newcomers, and to teach a Judaism quite removed from the Yiddish culture and religious orthodoxy of Eastern Europe.The dominant figure at the asylum during the formative years was Samuel Wofenstein (1841-1921), a native of Moravia who by the age of 22 had earned both a rabbinical degree and a Ph.D in philosophy. He became a trustee of the JOA in 1875 and its superintendent in 1878. For a man who gained a reputation as an authoritarian, his first wish was to free the children from a lock step regimentation, which produced an institutional type.marked by repression if not atrophy of the impulse to act independent. Wolfenstein stressed obedience through persuasion, through religion (Reform Judaism), and moral exhortations. Students were to be imbued with respect for work through performing useful tasksthe boys in the stables and on the grounds, the girls in the kitchen, the laundry, and the sewing room.The idea of assimilation was necessarily paternalistic but many of the German Jews believed that by becoming more American and less obviously Jewish they would deflect the always present nativism and anti-Semitism. As for the children, they remained for the most part ambivalent about the orphanage and about Wolfenstein and his successors. They were taught some useful skills; they were fed and clothed. Their chief deprivation was of the spirit.Professor Polster brings to his study a sensitivity that complements his grasp of the literature of asylum and the social history of turn-of-the-century America. He has listened well to the aging men and women who once were the children inside looking out. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. About new book, unmarked, in crisp DJ. ; 1 x 10.1 x 7.1 Inches; 240 pages.

Condition: New. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: New. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 254 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 9 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16 x 25 cms. Category: Gypsy Lore Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 16 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16 x 25 cms. Category: Gypsy Lore Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 255 x 175 mm. xiv, 240 pp. Black cloth in pictorial jacket. A clean, bright copy. B&w illustrations. Endnotes, bibliography, index. Cleveland, Ohio. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo; cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Fine copy in fine, unworn dustwrapper.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3,500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gary Polster's study examines the efforts of the more acculturated German Jews of Cleveland to "Americanize" and make good workers of the newcomers, and to teach a Judaism quite removed from the Yiddish culture and religious orthodoxy of Eastern Europe.The dominant figure at the asylum during the formative years was Samuel Wofenstein (1841-1921), a native of Moravia who by the age of 22 had earned both a rabbinical degree and a Ph.D in philosophy. He became a trustee of the JOA in 1875 and its superintendent in 1878. For a man who gained a reputation as an authoritarian, his first wish was to free the children from a lock step regimentation, which produced an "institutional type.marked by repression if not atrophy of the impulse to act independent." Wolfenstein stressed obedience through persuasion, through religion (Reform Judaism), and moral exhortations. Students were to be imbued with respect for work through performing useful tasksthe boys in the stables and on the grounds, the girls in the kitchen, the laundry, and the sewing room.The idea of "assimilation" was necessarily paternalistic but many of the German Jews believed that by becoming more "American" and less obviously "Jewish" they would deflect the always present nativism and anti-Semitism. As for the children, they remained for the most part ambivalent about the orphanage and about Wolfenstein and his successors. They were taught some useful skills; they were fed and clothed. Their chief deprivation was of the spirit.Professor Polster brings to his study a sensitivity that complements his grasp of the literature of "asylum" and the social history of turn-of-the-century America. He has listened well to the aging men and women who once were the children "inside looking out.".