HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Secondary Source, Sweatshop, Immigrant Language
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Famine over in ireland, germany is stable also. Other people experience more pushes: southern and eastern europe. Yiddish and/or language of country of origin. Straggling between two worlds: jewish vs american. Husband came to us first to work and make money, wife arrives later with son (about 3 years later) Wife arrives after her father in law"s passing. Performs grief ritual for his father: shows he still has connection to jewish faith. Has mastered speaking english: meets and talks to people at the dancing academy (forced to speak english in these places) Also learned at his job (sweat shop) Starts calling his son joey, plays baseball with him, wants him to go to school. Marries mamie after divorcing gitl, but mamie has no money now. Comes through ellis island, vetted by authorities, judge lets her in after seeing the marriage certificate (to make sure she wasn"t a prostitute, like the irish women) Traditional wife (literally fresh off the boat)
