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Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940
- Title
- Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940 / Ewa Morawska.
- Author
- Morawska, Ewa T.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xxv, 369 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: What this Book is About, What is Different About It, and Who Helped in its Making -- Ch. 1. In the Shtetls and Out -- Ch. 2. Fitting Old-Country Resources into a New Place: The Formation of a (Multi)-Ethnic Economic Niche -- Ch. 3. Insecure Prosperity -- Ch. 4. Small Town, Slow Pace: Transformations in Jewish Sociocultural Life -- Ch. 5. In the Middle on the Periphery: Involvement in the Local Society -- Ch. 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.
- ISBN
- 0691037353 (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95030471
- OCLC
- 32699580
- ocm32699580
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries