Education
Diner received her Doctor of Philosophy, 1976, University of Illinois at Chicago, Master of Arts, 1970, University of Chicago, and Bachelor of Arts, 1968, University of Wisconsin.
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Her Works Praise Her: A History Of Jewish Women In America From Colonial Times To The Present
( From salons in Federal Philadelphia to Frontier homeste...)
From salons in Federal Philadelphia to Frontier homesteads to settlement houses in city slums to 1970s consciousness-raising sessions, American Jewish women have brought a distinctive sense of self and community to bear on the economic, social, and family life around them. Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly draw upon long-neglected public records, private diaries, memoirs and letters to overturn the widespread notion that Jewish life began at Ellis Island and happened only in New York. They offer a complex portrait of flesh-and-blood characters such as Emma Lazarus, Mrs. Wyatt Earp, Ethel Rosenberg, Betty Friedan, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The result is a comprehensive account of how America transformed generations of Jewish women--and how these women transformed America.
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Paperback) - Common
(Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not...)
Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. This work tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas: the Italian, Irish, and East European Jewish immigrants.
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In the Almost Promised Land : American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 / Hasia R. Diner
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In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
(Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African...)
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests - launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.
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Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner (2002-03-03)
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner (2003-04-30)
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Diner, Hasia R.(April 30, 2003) Paperback
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
( Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, n...)
Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of America's abundant food--its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese, fruits and vegetables, coffee and beer--reflected their earlier deprivations and shaped their ethnic practices in the new land. Hungering for America tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food that inspired community pride and cohesion. Irish immigrants, in contrast, loath to mimic the foodways of the Protestant British elite, diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And, East European Jews, who venerated food as the vital center around which family and religious practice gathered, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices. These tales, of immigrants in their old worlds and in the new, demonstrate the role of hunger in driving migration and the significance of food in cementing ethnic identity and community. Hasia Diner confirms the well-worn adage, "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674011112/?tag=2022091-20
Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
( Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experienc...)
Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691095450/?tag=2022091-20
Hasia Diner
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Diner is the Paul South. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History. Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History. And Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.
In 2009 she published We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962.
According to Adam Kirsch, the book "drive(s) a stake, once and for all, through the heart of a historical falsehood that has proved remarkably durable. This is the notion that, as Diner’s subtitle has it, American Jews were initially “silent” about the Holocaust—that the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewry’s collective consciousness.".
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In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
(Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African...)
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Her Works Praise Her: A History Of Jewish Women In America From Colonial Times To The Present
( From salons in Federal Philadelphia to Frontier homeste...)
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Paperback) - Common
(Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not...)
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
( Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, n...)
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Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America
( Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experienc...)
- In the Almost Promised Land : American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 / Hasia R. Diner
- Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner (2002-03-03)
- Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner (2003-04-30)
- Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Diner, Hasia R.(April 30, 2003) Paperback
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In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
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