Of Science and Excess: Jacob Riis, Anzia Yezierska, and the Modernist Turn in Immigrant Fiction

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Nihad M. Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Anzia Yezierska ◽  
Jacob Riis

Walter Rauschenbusch and the Brotherhood of the Kingdom

1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Howard Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Storm And Stress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
Jacob Riis ◽  
Manchester School ◽  
The Church

The Brotherhood of the Kingdom was organized in December, 1892, by a small group of converts to the ideal of the kingdom of God on earth who, not unmindful of the examples of St. Francis and of the Society of Jesus, planned to reestablish the idea of the kingdom “in the thought of the church and to assist in its practical realization in the world.” The year 1892 had witnessed a rising crescendo of social turbulence and political unrest throughout America. In the midwest the populist revolt was growing, while industrial warfare had broken out in the violent Homestead strike at the Carnegie steel plants. Jacob Riis had opened wide the festering tenements of the great cities in his revelation of How the Other Half Lives, while in intellectual circles the younger economists were rebelling against the tenets of the Manchester school. William Jennings Bryan's campaign for free silver was only four years away, and the Spanish–American War but six years in the future. Into such an atmosphere of storm and stress was born the Brotherhood of the Kingdom, dedicated to the realization of a spiritual ideal in the social order.

scholarly journals PROYECTO RIIS: UN HAPPENING PARA LA VIDA SOCIAL

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Juan José Tuset Davó
Keyword(s):  
Jacob Riis

Cuando el espacio público se vacía de usos y se le priva a la gente que lo haga suyo, el espacio muere. Esta situación mueve a la arquitectura a iniciar su revitalización. La plaza-parque Jacob Riis (1966) de Nueva York, obra del arquitecto del paisaje M. Paul Friedberg, nos alecciona en este sentido. Su proyecto arquitectónico tiene la condición de laboratorio de la forma urbana para redefinir la arquitectura del espacio común. El proyecto Riis muestra una manera diferente de transformar los espacios en desuso en áreas marginales residenciales. En concreto, el parque de juegos infantil es la expresión de una forma provisional de espacio público condensador de vida social. Visto desde el presente, rompió con los modelos precedentes, comenzó nuevos caminos disciplinares en la arquitectura del paisaje, codificó conocimientos previos y vaticinó su propio desarrollo a través de las variaciones de su forma. El proyecto Riis acumula arquitecturas específicas en un campo expandido, es un entorno de juego total, un happening en el que la vida social vuelve a recuperar el espacio del que había sido expulsada. El proyecto Riis nos muestra la capacidad de la arquitectura para transformar el espacio común y determinar el valor del proyecto arquitectónico como vehículo para la reforma social.

Jacob Riis Houses

2016 ◽  
pp. 128-131
Author(s):  
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Jacob Riis

5. Into the mainstream

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
International Literature ◽  
Anzia Yezierska ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Philip Roth ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
Abraham Cahan ◽  
Cynthia Ozick ◽  
Isaac Bashevis Singer ◽  
Grace Paley ◽  
Jewish Writers

“Into the mainstream” looks at immigrant Jewish writers in America, such as Abraham Cahan (The Rise of David Levinsky), Anzia Yezierska (Bread Givers), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories), all of whom transitioned from Yiddish into English, and analyzes Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep as a transitional novel. We notice here the transition from “ethnic” to “national” writer in the careers of Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Cynthia Ozick. Much was gained and lost in Jewish literature as a result of Jews becoming a “successful minority” in America. Jewish readers have always been a voracious audience of international literature.

Flowers and Thugs: The Slum Photos of Jacob Riis

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Kristine Somerville
Keyword(s):  
Jacob Riis

The Possessive Self in Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska: Gender, Jewishness, and the Assumptions of Americanization

Prospects ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Blanche H. Gelfant
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Anzia Yezierska ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Mary Antin ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Original Emphasis ◽  
The Creation

Mary Antin was not modest in her use of the possessive case in The Promised Land — in her iterations of Mine, Mine, Mine. While still a schoolgirl, Antin asserted that everything she saw in the Boston Public Library, a “treasure house” of wisdom and art, was “Mine.” As the child of a newly naturalized American, she felt entitled to claim possession; the library and its treasured holdings were “Mine,” she said, “because I was a citizen; mine, though I was born an alien; mine … My palace — mine! … This is mine” (266, original emphasis). By the time Antin came to the soaring conclusion of The Promised Land, she had exchanged her natural (and naturalized) father for the country's Founding Father, and as the child of George Washington, she claimed as her “heritage” everything in human evolutionary history that had led to the creation of America and everything yet to be evolved. “I am the youngest of America's children,” she wrote, “and into my hands is given all her priceless heritage … Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future” (286). In swooping hyperbole, Antin equated American citizenship with possession, and possession with inheritance, property, and rights: with a treasure house in which she “had a right to be … at home” (266).

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