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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

Orphans --- Jewish orphanages --- Orphans and orphan-asylums --- Children --- Orphanages, Jewish --- Jews --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Charities --- Jewish Children's Home (Rochester, N.Y.) --- Social policy and particular groups --- kindertehuizen --- sociale geschiedenis --- Jodendom --- weeskinderen --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Rochester --- United States --- Orphaned children --- United States of America --- Rochester [New York]