Jewish life in small-town America a history / [electronic resource] :
Lee Shai Weissbach.
- Yale University Press, c2005.
- 1 online resource (x, 436 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336)and index.
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.
Jews--Social conditions--United States--19th century. Jews--Social conditions--United States--20th century. Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Judaism. City and town life--History.--United States SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.