A CONSUMING HERITAGE: BALTIMORE'S EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY AND THEIR EVOLVING FOODWAYS, 1880-1939

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dc.contributor.advisorMar, Lisa Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorSturm, Charlotte Louiseen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-02T05:32:16Z
dc.date.available2013-07-02T05:32:16Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explores how Baltimore's Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their American-born children engaged with American foodways during the period 1880-1939. Food-related charitable aid and food education were used as tools of Americanization and moral uplift by public health officials, middle-class charitable workers, and social reformers between 1880 and 1920. The home economics classrooms of Baltimore's public schools continued this work in the early twentieth century, teaching the immigrants' American-born children lessons about food and middle-class domesticity. Although somewhat influential in reshaping the immigrants' food habits, the Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children largely retained their traditional foodways, making their own choices about how to adopt American foodways. Interconnected issues of food, health, economics, middle-class domesticity, citizenship, and identity are evident in this study. Using sources such as cookbooks and oral histories, this study demonstrates how foodways expressed and continue to express Jewish, American, and Jewish American identities.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14236
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBaltimoreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfoodwaysen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhome economicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJewish immigrantsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarylanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial settlementsen_US
dc.titleA CONSUMING HERITAGE: BALTIMORE'S EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY AND THEIR EVOLVING FOODWAYS, 1880-1939en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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