Most Fortunate Unfortunates, The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans., Marlene Trestman
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates, The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans., Marlene Trestman
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Most Fortunate Unfortunates
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1394121860
Responsibility statement
Marlene Trestman
Sub title
The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans.
Summary
"Marlene Trestman's Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the home was the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation. It reflected the city's affinity for religiously operated orphanages and the growing prosperity of its Jewish community. In 1904, the orphanage founded the Isidore Newman School, a coed, non-sectarian school that was also open to children, regardless of religion, whose parents paid tuition. By the time the Jewish Orphans' Home closed in 1946, it had sheltered over sixteen hundred parentless children and two dozen widows from the Crescent City, Louisiana, and the mid-South. Based on deep archival research and numerous interviews of home alumni and their descendants, Most Fortunate Unfortunates provides a view of life in the home for the children and women who lived there. The study also traces the forces that impelled the home's founders and leaders - both the heralded men and otherwise overlooked women - to create and maintain the institution that Jews considered the 'pride of every Southern Israelite.' While Trestman celebrates the home's many triumphs, she delves deeply into its failures. Most Fortunate Unfortunates is sure to be of widespread interest to readers interested in southern Jewish history, gender and race relations, and the evolution of social work and dependent childcare"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. A Permanent Home, 1853-1856 -- 2. First Years, 1856-1861 -- 3. Civil War and Federal Occupation, 1861-1868 -- 4. A Series of Superintendents, 1868-1886 -- 5. A New Home and the Dream of a New School, 1887-1903 -- 6. Isidore Newman Manual Training School, 1904-1909 -- 7. Chester Teller's Golden City, 1909-1911 -- 8. Rabbi Leon Volmer, 1911-1925 -- 9. Ed Lashman Steers the Home in a New Direction, 1926-1929 -- 10. "Uncle Harry" Ginsburg Takes Charge, 1929-1940 -- 11. Final Years, 1940-1946 -- Epilogue -- NOTES
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- Children + Institutional care + History -- 20th century -- United States
- Isidore Newman School -- History
- Home for Jewish Widows and Orphans (New Orleans, La.) -- History
- Jewish orphanages + History -- 20th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Jewish orphanages + History -- 19th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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- Children + Institutional care + History -- 20th century -- United States
- Isidore Newman School -- History
- Home for Jewish Widows and Orphans (New Orleans, La.) -- History
- Jewish orphanages + History -- 20th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Jewish orphanages + History -- 19th century -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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