Abstract

Part I. Getting to Know the Residents: 1. Walking into the neighborhood 2. 'It used to be like Jerusalem': history and institutions of the Jewish community of South Philadelphia 3. Izzy's luncheonette: the neighborhood's center 4. A gleyele tey (a glass of tea): a Yiddish conversation group Part II. Identities: 5. A Jewish place 6. Coming home to South Philadelphia Part III. Language and Culture: 7. Cycles of using Yiddish 8. Yiddish fluency 9. Facets of speech Part IV. Philadelphia and Beyond: The Evolution of Ethnic Culture: 10. Language and identity 11. Aging and the life course: the memory of language 12. American Yiddish, American Jewish: from immigrant to ethnic culture Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.

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