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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 c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1996]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- In the shtetls and out
- Fitting old-country resources into a new place : the formation of a (multi)-ethnic economic niche
- Insecure prosperity
- Small town, slow pace : transformations in Jewish sociocultural life
- In the middle on the periphery : involvement in the local society
- Through several lenses : making sense of their lives
- Epilogue : Postwar era : a decline of the community
- Appendix I (Self-)reflections of a fieldworker
- Appendix II Members of the Jewish community in Johnstown and vicinity who participated in this study.