TY - BOOK ID - 77876252 TI - The home on Gorham Street and the voices of its children PY - 1996 SN - 0817382828 9780817382827 0817307818 9780817307813 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Orphans KW - Jewish orphanages KW - Orphans and orphan-asylums KW - Children KW - Orphanages, Jewish KW - Jews KW - Social conditions. KW - History. KW - Charities KW - Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.) KW - Social policy and particular groups KW - kindertehuizen KW - sociale geschiedenis KW - Jodendom KW - weeskinderen KW - anno 1930-1939 KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - Rochester KW - United States KW - Orphaned children KW - United States of America KW - Rochester [New York] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876252 AB - The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once wards of the home in the 1930's and 1940's tell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an orphanage. Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and ER -