Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Searching the patterns.
  • Patterns of evidence: identifying small communities.
  • Patterns of settlement: the early years.
  • Patterns of settlement: the era of mass migration.
  • Patterns of stability and mobility.
  • Patterns of livelihood and class.
  • Patterns of family life.
  • Patterns of congregational organization.
  • Patterns of synagogue history.
  • Patterns of religious leadership.
  • Patterns of culture: the German Jews.
  • Patterns of culture: the East Europeans.
  • Patterns of prejudice and of transformation.
  • Epilogue: Patterns of endurance and decline.
  • Reading the manuscript census.