Assyrians Of Yonkers

Author : Dr. Ruth Kambar
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467129631
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrians of Yonkers written by Dr. Ruth Kambar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as the late 19th century, there was a small community of Assyrians in Yonkers, New York. By 1914 and 1915, many Assyrians fled Ottoman Turkey and Persia seeking refuge from genocide, and with the assistance of American Presbyterian missionaries, many found their way to bolstering a growing population in Yonkers. This community established its own churches, community associations, and businesses, becoming an essential part of the American mosaic while retaining its culture through religion, language, social gatherings, and traditional foods. Celebrating community life and their new home, Assyrian Americans of Yonkers continued to play an integral role in American society while educating themselves about the continuous plight of their brethren in the Middle East and passing on their heritage to future generations.

Author : John Pierre Ameer
Publisher : Gorgias Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrians in Yonkers written by John Pierre Ameer and published by Gorgias Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Dr. Ameer's reflection on growing up within the small community of Assyrian Christians in Yonkers, New York. He uses the year 1946 as an orientation for his discussion of that ethnic community, city, and time in history. The book enables readers to reflect on those aspects of community critical to civic support and on the process of successful assimilation in mid-twentieth century America. The author describes the experience of living in an ethnically, religiously, and racially diverse society. This will be of particular interest to people concerned with sustaining the idea of community in American life.

Author : Marilyn E. Weigold
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438453949
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yonkers in the Twentieth Century written by Marilyn E. Weigold and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yonkers in the Twentieth Century chronicles the decline and rebirth of the fourth largest city in New York State, once known as "the Queen City of the Hudson" and "the City of Gracious Living." Previously an industrial powerhouse, the city's factories turned out essential items that helped the United States win two world wars. Following World War II, the industrial base of Yonkers eroded as companies moved away, contributing to an increase in poverty. To address the housing needs of its low-income residents, Yonkers built public housing, resulting in a nearly thirty-year court case that, for the first time in United States history, linked school and housing segregation. The case was finally settled in the early years of the twenty-first century, a time that also witnessed the continuation of the city's economic redevelopment efforts along the Hudson River and contiguous downtown area. Striving to once again become "the Queen City of the Hudson," Yonkers is being rebuilt beginning at its historic waterfront.

Author : Touraj Atabaki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134319932
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asia and the Caucasus written by Touraj Atabaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The loyalties of these communities are divided between their countries of residence and those states that serve as homeland of their particular ethno-cultural nation, and are further complicated by connections with contested transnational notions of common cultures and 'peoples'. Written by highly respected experts in the field, the book addresses issues such as nationalism, conflict, population movement, global civil society, Muslim communities in China and relations between the new nation-states and Russia. This innovative book will interest students and researchers of transnationalism and Central Asian studies.

Author : Episcopal Church. Department of Missions and Church Extension
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neighbors written by Episcopal Church. Department of Missions and Church Extension and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross Perlin
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802162479
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language City written by Ross Perlin and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. In Language City, Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against overwhelming odds. Perlin also dives deep into their languages, taking us on a fascinating tour of unusual grammars, rare sounds, and powerful cultural histories from all around the world. Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N’ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city’s original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan (“the place where we get bows”), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists. Also profiled in the book are speakers of the Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, the Central Asian minority language Wakhi, and the former lingua franca of the Lower East Side, Yiddish. A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America’s doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York’s colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of “killer languages” like English and Spanish. Both remarkable social history and testament to the importance of linguistic diversity, Language City is a joyful and illuminating exploration of a city and the world that made it.

Author : Yasmeen Hanoosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786725967
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chaldeans written by Yasmeen Hanoosh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as 'Chaldean' by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands of assimilation in the US, together with increased hostility and sectarian violence in Iraq, gave rise to a complex and transnational identity. Faced with Islamophobia in the US, Chaldeans were at pains to emphasize a Christian identity, and appropriated the ancient, pre-Islamic history of their namesake as a means of distinction between them and other immigrants from Arab lands. In this, the first ethnographic history of the modern Chaldeans, Yasmeen Hanoosh explores these ancient-modern inflections in contemporary Chaldean identity discourses, the use of history as a collective commodity for developing and sustaining a positive community image in the present, and the use of language revival and monumental symbolism to reclaim association with Christian and pre-Christian traditions.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide to Genealogical Research for Westchester County, New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guide is designed to point the researcher toward logical directions by listing the various research facilities and repositiories of records in Westchester County. It covers Westchester County to the present and the Bronx before 1900"--Page 3.

Author : Laura Robson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292154
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States of Separation written by Laura Robson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins -- The refugee regime -- The transfer solution -- The partition solution -- Diasporas and homelands

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book the spirit of missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: