ISBN:
022624797X
,
9780226247977
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Historical studies of urban America
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Berman, Lila Corwin, 1976- Metropolitan Jews
DDC:
305.8009774/34
Keywords:
Jews Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Ethnic relations
;
Jews ; Social conditions
;
Detroit (Mich.) Ethnic relations
;
Michigan ; Detroit
Abstract:
Jews and the American city -- Locating and relocating the Jewish neighborhoods of Detroit -- Keeping house in the city: the local politics of urban space -- Changing Jewish neighborhoods -- From neighborhood to city: the formation of Jewish metropolitan urbanism -- The sacred suburban sites of Jewish metropolitan urbanism -- Urban crises and the privatization of Jewish urbanism -- Epilogue: back-to-the-city Jews and the legacies of metropolitan urbanism.
Abstract:
Lila Corwin Berman is associate professor of history at Temple University, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is the author of Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
