Class, Networks, and Identity Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York

Name: Class, Networks, and Identity Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York
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ISBN: 9780742509931

ISBN-10: 0742509931

ISBN-13: 9780742509931

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rhonda Levine

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Class, Networks, and Identity is an account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in towns and villages that were primarily Christian.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.72" wide x 9.08" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Structural Adaptation, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity: The Untold Story of Rural German Jewish Immigrants



Old World Patterns: Cattle Dealing and Jewish Life in Rural Germany



Disrupted Lives: From Nazi Germany to Washington Heights



The Story of Milk



Plowing New Fields: Resettling in Rural New York



Old Patterns in a New Setting: Cattle Dealing and German Jews



Getting Together: Creating Community and Maintaining Ethnic Identity



Continuities and Discontinuities


Conclusion: Finding Sociology in Unlikely Places


References


Index


About the Author