Tales of and about Jewish Youth During the Fin-De-Siécle Era: An Annotated Gazette for a Transitional Decade in Upstate New York - Paperback

by Lawrence M. Ginsburg (Author)

This book tells the story of Jewish youth in upstate New York during the fin-de-siécle decade of the nineteenth century. Ginsburg details periods of transition for these youths by exploring life at various Jewish orphanages, examining a weekly Jewish journal, and profiling individuals as well as Jewish associations.

Author Biography

Lawrence M. Ginsburg is a retired lawyer who has written, among non-legal publications, Israelites in Blue and Gray: Unchronicled Tales from Two Cities (University Press of America, 2001); the essay "'Happyville' Deconstructed: An Over-caricatured Landmark in Southern Jewish History" (The South Carolina Review, 2006). Other endeavors include more then two dozen psychoanalytically-oriented papers authored or co-authored by him, which have appeared in journals published in North America, Europe and Israel. Several have been translated into French, German and Hebrew. His wife, Sybil A. Ginsburg, M.D., who is affiliated with the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute shares an interest in such scholarly pursuits.