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Jews in Suburbia

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Description:This is the first book to report in factual detail what is happening to the two-thirds of America's Jewish people who live in the suburbs - their relations with their Christian neighbors, the role of the synagogue, the still unsolved question of tensions and discrimination, family patterns, changing religious values and practices, and other vital factors.The author writes with the candor of a sociologist, and with the vigor and clarity of a journalist. He personally visited and studied nearly a hundred suburban communities, from Alhambra, California, to White Plains, New York.Rabbi Gordon does not pull his punches. "Is the suburb in danger of becoming a gilded ghetto?" he asks. And he reminds us that the immigrant generation deliberately segregated themselves – they sought out each other for security and thus created their own ghettos. But the American Jew of today no longer feels that he is a "citizen by sufferance"; he is a citizen by right of birth; and he wants to live peacefully and productively with his neighbors. He does not want a segregated suburbia. Yet the tendency towards segregation, vexing though it may be, cannot be ignored. "Ghettos tend to be created unwittingly; they are seldom deliberate creations," Rabbi Gordon points out.Jews in Suburbia is not a dry study for the archives: it is teeming with life and drama; it presents many factual, detailed case reports on all aspects of life, as the chapter-titles show. "America on the Move," ""Saga of the Suburbs,” "The Jewish Family, "The Synagogue-Center of Jewish Life," "Round of Ritual," "The Search for Religion," "Tension and Unrest, "The Homogenized Society," "The Larger community," and "Prologue to the Future."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jews in Suburbia. To get started finding Jews in Suburbia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 264

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Beacon Press

Release: 1959

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Description: This is the first book to report in factual detail what is happening to the two-thirds of America's Jewish people who live in the suburbs - their relations with their Christian neighbors, the role of the synagogue, the still unsolved question of tensions and discrimination, family patterns, changing religious values and practices, and other vital factors.The author writes with the candor of a sociologist, and with the vigor and clarity of a journalist. He personally visited and studied nearly a hundred suburban communities, from Alhambra, California, to White Plains, New York.Rabbi Gordon does not pull his punches. "Is the suburb in danger of becoming a gilded ghetto?" he asks. And he reminds us that the immigrant generation deliberately segregated themselves – they sought out each other for security and thus created their own ghettos. But the American Jew of today no longer feels that he is a "citizen by sufferance"; he is a citizen by right of birth; and he wants to live peacefully and productively with his neighbors. He does not want a segregated suburbia. Yet the tendency towards segregation, vexing though it may be, cannot be ignored. "Ghettos tend to be created unwittingly; they are seldom deliberate creations," Rabbi Gordon points out.Jews in Suburbia is not a dry study for the archives: it is teeming with life and drama; it presents many factual, detailed case reports on all aspects of life, as the chapter-titles show. "America on the Move," ""Saga of the Suburbs,” "The Jewish Family, "The Synagogue-Center of Jewish Life," "Round of Ritual," "The Search for Religion," "Tension and Unrest, "The Homogenized Society," "The Larger community," and "Prologue to the Future."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jews in Suburbia. To get started finding Jews in Suburbia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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