Italian Immigrants In Philadelphia 1926

Author : Robert DiSpaldo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524690656

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Italian Immigrants in Philadelphia 1926 by Robert DiSpaldo Pdf

In 1926 Philadelphia was a haven for immigrants looking for a better life. Philadelphia had the reputation as the manufacturing center of the nation and the world. Immigrants that came to Philadelphia settled in neighborhoods where people from their own countries lived. The immigrants strived to assimilate by learning the language and the ways of the United States. They believed they should keep the traditions of their mother countries and not to forget where they came from and how they once lived. The immigrants had one common goal, to achieve the promise that America offers, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Robert DiSpaldo has written a story inspired by his memories growing up in an Italian family in South Philadelphia. Combining tales his father and mother told him and his own experiences makes this story authentic. The summer of 1926 Philadelphia was the host for the Sesquicentennial Exposition, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Joey Nocelli a nine-year old Italian boy saw exhibits displaying other cultures from around the world. Seeing these exhibits Joey realized the way other people lived was very different from his own way of life. The summer of 1926 Joey learned that boys and girls where different from Carmela the girl next door. Joeys father Giovanni made wine for his own family and friends to share. Prohibition was the law of the land. One day Giovanni was confronted by evil men called the Black Hand interested in his home made wine. In 1926 radio was a source of entertainment if you had electricity. Homes were heated with coal that was stored in the basements. An illness called diphtheria would warrant a quarantine and separate families for months. Joeys coming of age journey begins when he climbs in a Hole in the Ceiling in an alley between row houses.

Author : Richard N. Juliani
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271042486

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Building Little Italy by Richard N. Juliani Pdf

A history of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia with an emphasis on the development of an Italian community before the beginning of mass immigration in the 1870s. Begins with a series of biographical sketches of the first arrivals to leave some trace of their presence during the 18th century. Employing state and church records, the reconstruction shifts to historical demography to define the components of an emerging subculture, and then concludes using historical sociology to shape the narrative and analysis. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Donna J. Di Giacomo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738550205

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Italians of Philadelphia by Donna J. Di Giacomo Pdf

A pictorial survey of the history of the Italian presence in Philadelphia, organized by geographical areas of the city.

Author : Richard N. Juliani
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Americanization
ISBN : 0405134304

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The Social Organization of Immigration by Richard N. Juliani Pdf

Author : Peter McCaffery
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271040578

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When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia by Peter McCaffery Pdf

In 1903, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens brought the city of Philadelphia lasting notoriety as "the most corrupt and the most contented" urban center in the nation. Famous for its colorful "feudal barons," from "King James" McManes and his "Gas Ring" to "Iz" Durham and "Sunny Jim" McNichol, Philadelphia offers the historian a classic case of the duel between bosses and reformers for control of the American city. But, strangely enough, Philadelphia's Republican machine has not been subject to critical examination until now. When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia challenges conventional wisdom on the political machine, which has it that party bosses controlled Philadelphia as early as the 1850s and maintained that control, with little change, until the Great Depression. According to Peter McCaffery, however, all bosses were not alike, and political power came only gradually over time. McManes's "Gas Ring" in the 1870s was not as powerful as the well-oiled machine ushered in by Matt Quay in the late 1880s. Through a careful analysis of city records, McCaffery identifies the beneficiaries of the emerging Republican Organization, which sections of the local electorate supported it, and why. He concludes that genuine boss rule did not emerge as the dominant institution in Philadelphia politics until just before the turn of the century. McCaffery considers the function that the machine filled in the life of the city. Did it ultimately serve its supporters and the community as a whole, as Steffens and recent commentators have suggested? No, says McCaffery. The romantic image of the boss as "good guy" of the urban drama is wholly undeserved.

Author : Stefano Luconi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791448576

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From Paesani to White Ethnics by Stefano Luconi Pdf

Examines the transformations of Italian American ethnic identity in twentieth-century Philadelphia.

Author : Richard Nicholas Juliani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Italians
ISBN : OCLC:80279710

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The Social Organization of Immigration by Richard Nicholas Juliani Pdf

Author : Karol K. Weaver
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271056821

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 by Karol K. Weaver Pdf

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.

Author : Allen F. Davis,Mark H. Haller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216709

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The Peoples of Philadelphia by Allen F. Davis,Mark H. Haller Pdf

Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.

Author : Daniel Amsterdam
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812248104

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Roaring Metropolis by Daniel Amsterdam Pdf

Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists in the early twentieth century as they advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. Focusing on Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, the book traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism.

Author : Michael DiPilla
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467116732

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South Philadelphia's Little Italy and 9th Street Italian Market by Michael DiPilla Pdf

"When the first Italian moved to the area near Catherine Street around 1798, it was mostly forest and filed. It was considered Irishtown by the early residents. By 1852, an Italian church had been established for the community, and from the advent of mass migration beginning in 1876 grew Philadelphia's Little Italy. The original neighborhood was bound by the area from Sixth Street to Eleventh Street and Bainbridge to Federal Streets. Many of the early families-Baldi, Pinto, and Fiorella-established businesses in the area that continue today." -- From cover.

Author : Richard N. Juliani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030115771

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Priest, Parish, and People by Richard N. Juliani Pdf

From the perspective of historical sociology, Richard N. Juliani traces the role of religion in the lives and communities of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia from the 1850s to the early 1930s. By the end of the nineteenth century, Philadelphia had one of the largest Italian populations in the country. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia eventually established twenty-three parishes for the exclusive use of Italians. Juliani describes the role these parishes played in developing and anchoring an ethnic community and in shaping its members' new identity as Italian Americans during the years of mass migration from Italy to America. Priest, Parish, and People blends the history of Monsignor Antonio Isoleri--pastor from 1870 to 1926 of St. Mary Magdalen dePazzi, the first Italian parish founded in the country--with that of the Italian immigrant community in Philadelphia. Relying on parish and archdiocesan records, secular and church newspapers, archives of religious orders, and Father Isoleri's personal papers, Juliani chronicles the history of St. Mary Magdalen dePazzi as it grew from immigrant refuge to a large, stable, ethnic community that anchored "Little Italy" in South Philadelphia. In charting that growth, Juliani also examines conflicts between laity and clergy and between clergy and church hierarchy, as well as the remarkable fifty-six-year career of Isoleri as a spiritual and secular leader. Priest, Parish, and People provides both the details of parish history in Philadelphia and the larger context of Italian-American Catholic history.

Author : Mark Wyman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501732621

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Round-Trip to America by Mark Wyman Pdf

Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist resentment and heavy-handed Americanization programs, and a complex of other problems.... Wyman's 'nine broad conclusions' about the returnees deserve to be read by everyone concerned with international migration.

Author : Philip S. Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009146013

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The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age, 1865-1920 by Philip S. Benjamin Pdf

Author : Gwendolyn Mink,Rickie Solinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814756539

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Welfare by Gwendolyn Mink,Rickie Solinger Pdf

Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information about poverty, the poor, and poverty policy in the United States. In response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics provides historical context for understanding recent policy developments, as it traces public opinion, recipients’ experiences, and policy continuities and innovations over time. The documents collected range across more than 100 years, from government documents and proclamations of presidents throughout the 20th century, to accounts of activist and grass roots organizations, newspaper reports and editorials, political cartoons, posters and more. They enable readers to go straight to the source to find out how public figures racialized welfare in the minds of white Americans, to explore the origins of the claim that poor women have babies in order to collect welfare, and to trace how that notion has been perpetuated and contested. The documents also illustrate how policymakers in different eras have invoked and politicized the idea of dependency, as well as how ideas about women's dependency have followed changing characterizations of poor women as workers and as mothers. Welfare provides a picture of the government’s evolving ideas about poverty and provision, along side powerful examples of the voices too often eclipsed in the public square—welfare recipients and their advocates, speaking about mothering, poverty, and human rights.