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Author | : Ewa Morawska |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691228302 |
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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.
Author | : Malcolm Lyall Darling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Agricultural credit |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Malcolm Lyall Darling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Debt |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rob Stones |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230213642 |
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This important text argues for a 'strong' notion of structuration theory in contrast to the seminal but more abstract and relatively under-developed project represented by Anthony Giddens's writings. Emphasis on the duality of structure is placed at the centre of the tradition. It is argued that the distinctive power of structuration theory lies in its potential to critically investigate a specific range of in situ questions. Structuration Theory produces a synthesis that draws on Giddens's work, on other versions of the structuration problematic, and on key empirical uses of the approach. The final chapters make use of extended case examples to illustrate the critical power of strong structuration.
Author | : Deborah R. Weiner |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2023-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252054946 |
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The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.
Author | : Daniel Lynn Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : D. L. Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Sermons |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hasia R. Diner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300178646 |
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The never-before-told story of countless Jewish on-the-road peddlers who crossed the globe in search of better lives
Author | : Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300190395 |
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Jonathan D. Sarna's award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: "Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years."--Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post "A masterful overview."--Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review "This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history."--Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year
Author | : Caroline Brettell |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780415926119 |
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First published in 2000