Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940

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Titel: Insecure Prosperity : Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLES
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 In the Shtetls and Out
CHAPTER 2 Fitting Old-Country Resources into a New Place: The Formation of a (Multi-)Ethnic Economic Niche
CHAPTER 3 Insecure Prosperity
CHAPTER 4 Small Town, Slow Pace: Transformations in Jewish Sociocultural Life
CHAPTER 5 In the Middle on the Periphery: Involvement in the Local Society
CHAPTER 6 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 (Alphabetical List)
NOTES
INDEX

Beteiligte: Morawska, Ewa [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2021]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (440 p.); 31 halftones

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780691228303

ISBN: 9780691228303

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Schlagwörter: Jews Pennsylvania Johnstown (Cambria County) History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; Affair ; American Jews ; American middle class ; Americans ; Autobiography ; B'nai B'rith ; Bankruptcy ; Boutique ; Career ; Clifford Geertz ; Coal town ; Collective memory ; Customer ; Debt ; Department store ; E. P. Thompson ; Eastern Europe ; Economy ; Emigration ; Employment ; Entrepreneurship ; Ethnic group ; [...]

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Beschreibung: 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 recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation. Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics

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