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<p>In her coming-of-age memoir, <italic>A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War</italic> (1979), Marie Jastrow, a Jewish-American immigrant woman, cleverly captures the daily life of her family in Yorkville, New York City, in the early decades of the twentieth century. Jastrow recalls the difficulties she and her parents had to face during their first years in the United States, between 1907 and 1918, and the ways in which they managed to adapt to the social, economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the new environment. Therefore, this essay sets out to explore how Jastrow’s family members succeeded in negotiating the challenges of a gendered immigrant experience.</p>
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In her coming-of-age memoir, A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War (1979), Marie Jastrow, a Jewish-American immigrant woman, cleverly captures the daily life of her family in Yorkville, New York City, in the early decades of the twentieth century. Jastrow recalls the difficulties she and her parents had to face during their first years in the United States, between 1907 and 1918, and the ways in which they managed to adapt to the social, economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the new environment. Therefore, this essay sets out to explore how Jastrow’s family members succeeded in negotiating the challenges of a gendered immigrant experience.

Memories of Immigrant Life: Marie Jastrow’s <italic>A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War</italic> (1979)

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Memories of Immigrant Life: Marie Jastrow’s  (1979)

In her coming-of-age memoir, A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War (1979), Marie Jastrow, a Jewish-American immigrant woman, cleverly...

Memories of Immigrant Life: Marie Jastrow’s A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War (1979)

Published Online: Feb 27, 2023

Page range: 162 - 190

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0020

Keywords
Marie Jastrow, Jewish-American immigrant women, immigrant coming-of-age memoir, early twentieth century, gender roles, ethnic identity, acculturation

© 2022 Anca-Luminița Iancu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Memories of Immigrant Life: Marie Jastrow’s A Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York before the Great War (1979)

Published Online: Feb 27, 2023

Page range: 162 - 190

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0020

KeywordsMarie Jastrow, Jewish-American immigrant women, immigrant coming-of-age memoir, early twentieth century, gender roles, ethnic identity, acculturation

© 2022 Anca-Luminița Iancu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Marie Jastrow, Jewish-American immigrant women, immigrant coming-of-age memoir, early twentieth century, gender roles, ethnic identity, acculturation