{"product_id":"most-fortunate-unfortunates-9780807172902","title":"Most Fortunate Unfortunates","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Based on deep archival research and numerous interviews of alumni and their descendants, \u003cem\u003eMost Fortunate Unfortunates\u003c\/em\u003e provides a view of life in the Jewish Orphans’ Home for the children and women who lived there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttentive to race and gender, and contextualized within general and Jewish history as well as the history of childcare, \u003ci\u003eMost Fortunate Unfortunates\u003c\/i\u003e sets a new standard as a well-researched, well-written, warts-and-all history of the Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans.\" - Jonathan D. Sarna, Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Judaism: A History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What's remarkable about Marlene Trestman's \u003ci\u003eMost Fortunate Unfortunates\u003c\/i\u003e is its ability to shift scope, from the intricate details of a New Orleans institutional history—complete with names, faces, personalities, and incidents hitherto forgotten—to regional, national, and even international contexts.\"- Richard Campanella, author of \u003cem\u003eCityscapes of New Orleans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With narrative empathy and scholarly rigor, Trestman gives readers insight not only into one specific orphanage, but also into the larger challenges, triumphs, and dilemmas of an American Jewish community determined to care for its children.\" - Kim van Alkemade, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e–bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eOrphan #8: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMost Fortunate Unfortunates\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the reading list of everyone interested in childcare and education, as well as southern and American Jewish and general history.\" - Mark K. Bauman, founding editor of \u003cem\u003eSouthern Jewish History\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eA New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A comprehensive and engaging study of a pioneering Jewish orphanage in the United States.\" - Reena Sigman Friedman, author of \u003cem\u003eThese Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"More than 140 interviews and oral histories augment this enlightening institutional history that follows the emergence of professional social workers and explores still-evolving childcare standards.\" - Hollace Ava Weiner, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eLone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas and author of Jewish Stars in Texas: Rabbis and Their Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Trestman's \u003ci\u003eMost Fortunate Unfortunates\u003c\/i\u003e provides a wide-scoped, well-written, carefully documented, and extensively researched window into the story of Jewish institutional childcare in America over nearly a hundred years.\" - Peter M. Wolf, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sugar King: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527761338711,"sku":"9780807172902","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780807172902.jpg?v=1731869140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/most-fortunate-unfortunates-9780807172902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}