Insecure Prosperity : Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 /

This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morawska, Ewa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Jews > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Affair.
American Jews.
American middle class.
Americans.
Autobiography.
B'nai B'rith.
Bankruptcy.
Boutique.
Career.
Clifford Geertz.
Coal town.
Collective memory.
Customer.
Debt.
Department store.
E. P. Thompson.
Eastern Europe.
Economy.
Emigration.
Employment.
Entrepreneurship.
Ethnic group.
Ethnic studies.
Ethnoreligious group.
Everyday life.
Extended family.
Family economy.
Habitus (sociology).
Haskalah.
Historical sociology.
Historiography.
Household.
Housewife.
Hungarians.
Ideology.
Illustration.
Immigration to the United States.
Immigration.
Income.
Informant.
Institution.
Interwar period.
Jewish culture.
Jewish history.
Jewish identity.
Jewish name.
Jews.
Judaism.
Kashrut.
Laborer.
Layoff.
Literature.
Lithuania.
Livelihood.
Lower East Side.
Middle class.
Minority group.
Moses Rischin.
Newspaper.
Oral history.
Orthodox Judaism.
Payment.
Peasant.
Politics.
Postmodernism.
Profession.
Reform Judaism.
Religion.
Residence.
Retail.
Salary.
Secondary education.
Secularization.
Shopkeeper.
Shtetl.
Slavs.
Small business.
Social center.
Social environment.
Social history.
Social relation.
Society of the United States.
Society.
Sociology.
Standard of living.
Sunday school.
Superiority (short story).
Synagogue.
Tailor.
Talmud Torah.
Tkhine.
United Jewish Appeal.
Western Pennsylvania.
Wholesaling.
Workforce.
World War I.
World War II.
Writing.
Yiddish.
Zionism.
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