Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940 /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morawska, Ewa T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Subjects:
Jews > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) > Ethnic relations.
Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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