Jewish communities on the Ohio River : a history /

In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and development of small Jewish communities in towns along the river. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created networks of businesses and families that developed into a distinctive, nineteenth-century middle-cla...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Shevitz, Amy Hill, 1953-
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Saila:Ohio River Valley series.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=198472
Aurkibidea:
  • On the Frontier
  • From Europe to the Ohio River Valley
  • Finding and founding communities
  • Religious conflicts and congruity
  • A Judaism for the middle class
  • The community within a community
  • Maintaining community
  • The East European immigration and the reconfiguration of community
  • Communities at maturity
  • The demise of community.