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Author Weissbach, Lee Shai, 1947-

Title Jewish life in small-town America : a history / Lee Shai Weissbach.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 436 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336) and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
City and town life -- United States -- History.
United States -- History, Local.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
HISTORY -- General.
Other Form: Print version: Weissbach, Lee Shai, 1947- Jewish life in small-town America. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300106718 9780300106718 (DLC) 2004051195 (OCoLC)56085730
ISBN 9780300127652 (electronic bk.)
0300127650 (electronic bk.)
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