America and the Axis War. By Denys Smith. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1942. Pp. vi, 424. $3.00.) - Eastern Europe and the United States. By Joseph Hanč. (Boston: World Peace Foundation. 1942. Pp. 95. $0.50.)

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 939-941
Author(s):  
Denna F. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Peace

Strangers in the City: Transmigration from Eastern Europe and its Impact on Berlin and Hamburg 1880–1914

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-246
Author(s):  
Tobias Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Transit Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This article examines the impact of transit migration from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires on Berlin and Hamburg between 1880 and 1914. Both cities experienced massive growth during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, and both served as major points of passage for Eastern Europeans travelling to (and returning from) the United States. The rising migration from Eastern Europe through Central and Western European cities after 1880 coincided with the need to find adequate solutions to accommodate a rapidly growing number of commuters. The article demonstrates that the isolation of transmigrants in Berlin, Hamburg (and New York) during the 1890s was only partly related to containing contagious disease and ‘undesirable’ migrants. Isolating transmigrants was also a pragmatic response to the increasing pressure on the urban traffic infrastructure.

“The Hora Staccato in Swing!”: Jascha Heifetz's Musical Eclecticism and the Adaptation of Violin Miniatures

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-431
Author(s):  
JOSHUA S. WALDEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
History Of

AbstractJascha Heifetz (1901–87) promoted a modern brand of musical eclecticism, recording, performing, and editing adaptations of folk and popular songs while remaining dedicated to the standard violin repertoire and the compositions of his contemporaries. This essay examines the complex influences of his displacement from Eastern Europe and assimilation to the culture of the United States on both the hybridity of his repertoire and the critical reception he received in his new home. It takes as its case study Heifetz's composition of the virtuosic showpiece “Hora Staccato,” based on a Romany violin performance he heard in Bucharest, and his later adaptation of the music into an American swing hit he titled “Hora Swing-cato.” Finally, the essay turns to the field of popular song to consider how two of the works Heifetz performed most frequently were adapted for New York Yiddish radio as Tin Pan Alley–style songs whose lyrics narrate the early twentieth-century immigrant experience. The performance and arrangement history of many of Heifetz's miniatures reveals the multivalent ways in which works in his repertoire, and for some listeners Heifetz himself, were reinterpreted, adapted, and assimilated into American culture.

A New American Jewish World

1998 ◽  
pp. 294-297
Author(s):  
Sefton D. Temkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reform Judaism ◽  
American Jewish

This chapter shows how the battles over the Pittsburgh Platform were being fought over a terrain which other factors were already transforming. Large-scale migration from Eastern Europe had begun. The number of Jews in the United States, estimated at 250,000 in 1880, reached the million mark in 1900, the year of Wise’s death. The acculturated community, speaking English albeit with a German accent, largely middle class, reformed in religion, was outnumbered by one that spoke Yiddish, belonged to the proletariat, and was untouched by Reform Judaism. The processes which Wise saw at work when he arrived in 1846 had to begin over again; but although many of the factors were similar, the answers were not necessarily the same. Incidentally, the presence of a second and larger Jewish community enhanced the importance of New York in American Jewish life and diminished the significance of Cincinnati and other Midwest communities where Wise had held sway.

Fiction and Fact Concerning the Far East - l.T'ien Chün: Village in August. Introduction by Edgar Snow. New York: Smith and Durrell, 1942. Pp. xix, 313. $2.50. - 2.Helen Mears: Year of the Wild Boar, An American Woman in Japan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942. Pp. 342. $2.75. - 3.Jan Henrik Marsman: I Escaped from Hong Kong. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942. Pp. 249. $2.50. - 4.Lennox A. Mills: British Rule in Eastern Asia, A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic Development in British Malaya and Hong Kong. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. viii, 581. $5.00. - 5.John Leroy Christian: Modern Burma, A Survey of Political and Economic Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. Pp. ix, 381. $3.00. - 6.Raymond Kennedy: The Ageless Indies. New York: The John Day Company, 1942. Pp. xvi, 208. $2.00. - 7.Eugene H. Miller: Strategy at Singapore. With An Introduction by Captain W. D. Puleston. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Pp. viii, 145. $2.50. - 8.Rupert Emerson: The Netherlands Indies and The United States. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1942. Pp. 92. $0.50. - 9.Stanley K. Hornbeck: The United States and the Far East: Certain Fundamentals of Policy. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1942. Pp. vi, 100. $1.00. - 10.V. D. Wickizer and M. K. Bennett: The Rice Economy of Monsoon Asia. Stanford University, California: Food Research Institute. Pp. xiii, 358. $3.50. - 11.G. F. Hudson, Marthe Rajchman, George E. Taylor: An Atlas of Far Eastern Politics. Enlarged edition with supplement for the years 1938 to 1942. New York: The John Day Company. 1942. Pp. 207. $2.50.

1943 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-259
Author(s):  
Harley Farnsworth MacNair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Far East ◽  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Peace ◽  
The Far East ◽  
John Day
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