HIST-1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jewish Diaspora, Role Reversal, Alexis De Tocqueville
4 Feb 2020
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Juxtaposition of the assimilated jews with the man who just came over. In america, he"ll soon find out there"s no such things as relatives : what does this mean? maybe a loss of identity familial, etc. (make a new identity/restart) Individualistic in america (not reliant on family ties) Jake"s first line in america you marry for love but conversation immediately switches to economics and wealth: though he does really end up marrying for love since mamie loses. In the tailor shop money paying for divorce. I didn"t notice you at first. you looked like a nobleman looks like someone who would be very rich in the old country (connotations of nobility and aristocracy in the old country/understanding of social hierarchy) social order switched in american. Jake desirous of wife"s integration/assimilation: bernstein, gitl greatly respects and admires because notion of scholar very well respected in the old country not the same in america.
