Choosing Yiddish in Israel: Yung Yisroel between Home and Exile, the Center and the Margins (original) (raw)
The Idealized Mother and Her Discontents: Performing Maternity in Yiddish Film Melodrama
This article brings together melodrama studies, film studies and the critique of gender to re-examine the mythical Jewish Mother as she appears in Yiddish film melodrama of the 1930s and 1940s, as a cultural icon that helped negotiate the challenged of immigration, urbanisation and acculturation. I show how the ideal of the self-less, martyrlike mother can be read against the grain. I argue that moments of "masquerade" or "performing maternity" enable us to read certain Yiddish film melodramas as subversive, expressing resistance to hegemonic culture. Source: “The Idealized Mother and Her Discontents: Performing Maternity in Yiddish Film Melodrama” in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture, Shiri Goren, Hannah Pressman, and Lara Rabinovitch, eds. (Wayne State University Press, 2012), 163-178.
Vilna on the St Lawrence: Montreal as the Would-Be Haven for Yiddish Culture
No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the sense of belonging, 2020
This chapter explores how and why Eastern European Jewish intellectuals fashioned an image of Montreal as a "reincarnation" of Vilna and what it tells us about their hopes and anxieties for Yiddish language and culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
During the immediate years after World War I American Jewish commentators from across the spectrum had begun viewing anti-Jewish enmity as an interrelated phenomenon that straddled the Atlantic. On the one hand, they often blamed the growing antisemitism in America on immigrant groups like Poles and Germans. On the other, they also saw the simultaneous rise of anti-Jewish hatred in Europe as linked to the circulation of American anti-Jewish literature by Ford and his ilk. Moreover, as antisemitism in America coincided with the fact that American troops fought alongside the White forces in Russia and Polish Americans were involved in anti-Jewish atrocities, Jewish observers increasingly cast Americans as part of a larger, antagonistic Gentile world. This article appears in Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm (eds.), "American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? "
Chapter 18 Adjudicated Adolescents
2016
possession of narcotics). Only 3% of all juvenile arrests in 2008 were related to violent offenses, such as homicid e, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault (Puzzanchera, Adams, & Kang, 2009). Status offenses refer to acts that are illegal for juveniles but not for adults, such as consun1ption of alcohol, violation of curfew, and truancy fron1 school (OJ JDP, 20 Ila). Ju venile Justice Processes and Treatment Options Term inology, po(jcies, and procedures pertaining to the U.S. juvenile ju stice system have changed considerably over time and presently vary from state to state, as is neatly chronicled by Barton (20 I la). In genera l, though, when a juvenile is alleged to have comrnitted a delinqu ent act or status offense, a petition is filed with the juvenile court in the proper jurisdiction. Once the al.legation has been made, the case is referred to a probation department, where a predisposition report is prepared. T his report typically contains a summary of the facts related to the case and a recommendation for corrective measures (Barton, 20 lla). Ajudge reviews the report and, in a disposition hearing, n1ay adjudicate and then render a decision regarding correction. The particu lar disposition imposed usually depends upon the nature and severity of the adolescent's offense(s), his or her crirninal history (including prior d ispositions), the philosophy of the juvenile court in which the individual is tried, and the options availab le for remediation, arnong other factors. Often , after arrest and during court proceedings, youth may be sent to reside in local or regional jails or, increasingly, in ternporary, secure detention centers. Non secure, interirn shelters may also be employed for adolescents who pose low social risk or who have no other safe place to stay while they await adjudication, d isposition, or another placement (Barton, 20 llb; Pu zzanchera, 2009). In this country, adolescents are not typically incarcerated for status offenses alone. Serious and repeat offenders receive the most severe sanction-commitment to a residential progra1n. Some examples are training schools/ long-term secure facilities, group homes/ halfway houses, boot ca1nps, and ranch/wilderness therapies. OJJDP custody data for 2007 indicated that nearly 87,000 detained and committed juveniles under the age of 21 years were held in residential placen1ents around the country, 86% of whom were 1nale residents (OJJDP, 20Jlb). Most of these programs are privately operated and s1nall (20 or fewer youth), yet about 70o/o of all juvenile offenders reside in large, stateoperated facilities (OJ JDP, 20 I le). Some are same-sex and some are coeducational, and they vary in level of security. If published materials are any indication , most music therapists who work with adjudicated adolescents do so in some type of residential program.