Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Boston Irish needed their culture a hundred years ago. It was the only frame of reference they had during their war with Boston's Brahmins. Now the war is over, although neither side emerged the victor, and the truce has brought with it a free intermingling of the two...
Paradoxically, during roughly the same period, assimilation ran into a countertrend. Orthodox and Conservative Jewry experienced a pronounced new growth in the U.S. Orthodox Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik describes the change: "When I came here in the 1930s [from Germany], there was a certain naivete, a great pride, a confidence...
Died. Harry Rogoff, 88, former editor in chief of the nation's leading Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of...
Between Worlds. Most whites who adopt children of other races are managing the problems remarkably well. But there are opponents of mixed adoption. Most vocal among them are the black separatists, who fear loss of the Negro's heritage through assimilation. Even integrationist blacks and whites worry about the...
Before leaving Harvard to join the Nixon administration in 1969, Moynihan was director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. He did not resume that position when he returned to Cambridge three months ago. He has published widely in the field of urban affairs, and was co...