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"'My son, the general practitioner' and 'my daughter, the instructor' have been one of the such a lot loved words of Jewish immigrant parents," writes Ruth Markowitz in recounting this tale of Jewish ladies who taught university in manhattan. instructing used to be an enticing occupation to the daughters of immigrants. It supplied prestige, defense, was once appropriate with marriage, and licenses didn't require dear education. within the interwar years, Jewish girls in big apple entered instructing in huge and extraordinary numbers. in truth, via 1960 nearly all of all long island lecturers have been Jewish girls. by way of interviewing sixty-one retired lecturers, Ruth Markowitz re-creates their lives and the far-reaching impact they'd on public schooling. Markowitz finds the limitations those girls confronted, from loss of parental and fiscal aid to discrimination, as they pursued their educations. these girls who accomplished their education nonetheless had dificulty discovering teacing positions, specifically through the melancholy. as soon as employed, the lecturers' days have been jam-packed with overcrowded periods, improperly maintained amenities, huge, immense quantities of forms, few loose classes, and numerous extracurricular tasks. additionally they discovered themselves offering social companies; Markowitz reveals a great number of lecturers who took a unique curiosity in minority young children. the academics Markowitz interviewed frequently believe the evaluate others have made that the Thirties have been of their personal means a golden age within the faculties. The retired academics take into account the tough occasions, but in addition their love of training and the adaptation they made within the study rooms. Their strength, intiative, and force can help encourage lecturers at the present time, who face the intense difficulties of substances, teenage being pregnant, and violence within the school rooms.

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53 However, this did not mean that the profession was used by the second generation as a means of achieving complete independence from family constraints. In contrast, Catharine Beecher and so many college-educated women of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant backgrounds found that teaching served as a mode of liberation from the restrictions of familial obligations. 54 The decision to educate a daughter for the teaching profession was often part of long-term planning for the family's future. According to the interviewees, salaries were deemed part of the family economy, whether the teacher was single or married; this was characteristic of America's teachers during the years between the wars.

Fathers tended to be more opposed to careers for daughters, although several respondents emphasized that their fathers' reluctance was not rooted in Old World beliefs, but was in keeping with the American acceptance of marriage and motherhood as the proper female spheres. "Papa thought like most American fathers then," Sarah Rothman explained, "that his daughters should work only until they married. He figured that an education for his girls, and all the sacrifices that went along with it, would be wasted when we married," adding how fortunate she was that her mother did not agree.

MY DAUGHTER, THE TEACHER JEWISH TEACHERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS Ruth Jacknow Markowitz RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY title : My Daughter, the Teacher : Jewish Teachers in the New York City Schools author : Markowitz, Ruth Jacknow. 7/1004924 subject : Jews--New York (State)--New York--Interviews, Jewish women--New York (State)--New York--Interviews, Jewish teachers--New York (State)--New York--Interviews, Women teachers--New York (State)--New York--Interviews, Public schools--New York (State)--New York Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Markowitz, Ruth Jacknow.

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