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 small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the r…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-22830-3
- EAN: 9780691228303
- Produktnummer: 35672757
- Verlag: Cabi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 440 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 31 halftones
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Ewa Morawska
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