The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its Children.

By: Goldstein, HowardMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817382827Subject(s): Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.) -- History | Jewish orphanages -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- History | Orphans -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its ChildrenDDC classification: 362.7/32/0974789 LOC classification: HV995Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Home and Community -- 2. Orphanages: Origins -- 3. The Home: Origins and Meanings -- 4. Facts and Figures -- 5. "It Wasn't Family but It Was Home" -- 6. Life in the Home: Views from the Inside -- 7. Lives and Meanings -- 8. Closings -- In Memoriam -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of eldersÑonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sÑtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an Òorphanage.Ó Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and orphaned children. GoldsteinÕs ethnography demonstrates amply that children who spend years in an institution can go on to lead productive lives under certain conditions. Such conditions may never have been met in any other childrenÕs institution. That they did exist one time, however, is cause not only to rejoice but also to understand that recreating these conditions is difficult and possibly impossible. This volume makes a distinctive contribution to child welfare policy and practice and to methods of social work research. ÑJane F. Gilgun, University of Minnesota The Home on Gorham Street is a significant contribution to social work literature. Goldstein takes a topic that has been the subject of continuing debate in social workÑthe childrenÕs institutionÑand examines it using a fresh approach. The stories of the subjects are handled with sensitivity and tact. This volume will be recognized as an important contribution to the literature on residential child care. ÑPaul H. Stuart, The University of Alabama Howard Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Social Work, Case Western Reserve University.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Home and Community -- 2. Orphanages: Origins -- 3. The Home: Origins and Meanings -- 4. Facts and Figures -- 5. "It Wasn't Family but It Was Home" -- 6. Life in the Home: Views from the Inside -- 7. Lives and Meanings -- 8. Closings -- In Memoriam -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of eldersÑonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sÑtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an Òorphanage.Ó Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and orphaned children. GoldsteinÕs ethnography demonstrates amply that children who spend years in an institution can go on to lead productive lives under certain conditions. Such conditions may never have been met in any other childrenÕs institution. That they did exist one time, however, is cause not only to rejoice but also to understand that recreating these conditions is difficult and possibly impossible. This volume makes a distinctive contribution to child welfare policy and practice and to methods of social work research. ÑJane F. Gilgun, University of Minnesota The Home on Gorham Street is a significant contribution to social work literature. Goldstein takes a topic that has been the subject of continuing debate in social workÑthe childrenÕs institutionÑand examines it using a fresh approach. The stories of the subjects are handled with sensitivity and tact. This volume will be recognized as an important contribution to the literature on residential child care. ÑPaul H. Stuart, The University of Alabama Howard Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Social Work, Case Western Reserve University.

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