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Challenging The Monolithic, Dickensian Stereotypes Of Orphanages, This Comparative Study Of Three Private Orphanages In Baltimore Suggests A Diversified And More Positive Picture Of Such Institutions. Written From The Point Of View Of The Communities, The Management Of The Institutions, And The Orphans Themselves, Orphanages Reconsidered Portrays Innovative Establishments That Were The Community's Response To The Plight Of Poor, Single Parents Who Needed Boarding Schools For Their Children. Using Institutional Records, Letters From The Children, Interviews, And Published Autobiographies, Nurith Zmora Studies How Three Private Orphanages In Baltimore Affected Both The Children That They Housed And Educated And Their Families. Focusing On The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, The Samuel Ready School For Girls (non-denominational Protestant), And The Dolan Children's Aid Society (catholic), The Author Demonstrates That Orphanages Were An Integral Part Of Their Communities. Community Leaders Worked With Superintendents To Provide Adequate Facilities, Food, Hygiene, And Medical Care And To Create Optimal Educational Opportunities. Countering Previous Accounts Of Child Abuse In Orphan Asylums, Zmora

Author

Zmora, Nurith , 1950-

Publisher

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566390712

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences