Joseph Sciorra. Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2015. xlii+262 pp.; 81 black-and-white figures, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00.

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-82
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Italian American

scholarly journals Tracing the Scholarly Legacy of I.M. Pul’ner: A Detour through the Pages of Sovetish Heymland

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-147
Author(s):  
Deborah Yalen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
York City ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Archival Document ◽  
State Museum ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

This article explores the scholarly legacy of I.M. Pul’ner, director of the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad from the late 1930s until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and considers the significance of material culture for Soviet Jewish ethnography during the interwar period. It also traces the rediscovery of Pul’ner by Soviet Jewish intellectuals in the 1970s, and the global journey of a long-lost archival document, which is now preserved at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City.

Ethnicity in American Political Life—The Italian-American Experience

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Salvatore J. LaGumina
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Italian American

A Report on the Proceedings of the American Italian Historical Association Conference held October 26, 1968 at Casa Italiana, Columbia University, New York City, New York.

Serving Ethnicity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Cinotto
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
York City ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Italian Americans ◽  
Italian American ◽  
And Performance

This chapter examines how Italian restaurateurs used food to represent Italian American identity and nation outside the community. In the interwar years, the position of Italian Americans in the larger life of New York City was still far from secure and subject to a complicated range of attitudes. The exclusionary Immigration Act of 1924 was filled with fearful allusions to the racial inadequacy of Italian immigrants and their inability to make good American citizens. At the same time, however, Italian immigrant restaurateurs and restaurant workers were beginning to transform cultural differences into highly marketable products for mass consumption. This chapter first provides an overview of the economy of Italian restaurants during the period 1900–1940 before discussing how popular culture, race, and performance converged at such establishments. It also considers customer–worker relations in Italian restaurants and shows that Italian restaurants attracted non-Italian middle-class customers by offering popular Italian food in an original and ultimately appealing ethnic narrative.

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