Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Routledge library editions. Religion in America |
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Routledge library editions. Religion in America
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Contents |
1: Jewish Migration from Boston to Brookline; 2: Occupational mobility and the move to Brookline; 3: Moving into and moving through Brookline; 4: Two Synagogues; 5: The Ohabei Shalom Brotherhood: A case study in acculturation; 6: Jews and Gentiles; 7: Brookline in the post war period |
Summary |
First published in 1990, Brookline: The Evolution of an American Jewish Suburb explores how Brookline became home to one of America's most vibrant Jewish communities. For over a century, Brookline, Massachusetts, was one of the oldest and most elite suburbs in America. By the end of the Second World War, its transformation into a distinctly Jewish suburb had begun. Through the use of sociological oral history, the book seeks to present the social world of Brookline Jews as they experienced it. Combined with a variety of documentary resources, such as newspapers and congregational "bulletins", it contextualises the accounts of the informants consulted to provide both factual and ethnographic validation and a detailed insight into the process by which this elite Yankee suburb became a core Jewish community |
Notes |
Originally published: New York: Garland Publishing, 1990 |
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Bruce A. Phillips is Professor of Sociology and Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion |
Subject |
Jews -- Massachusetts -- Brookline -- History
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RELIGION -- General.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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SUBJECT |
Brookline (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations
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Subject |
Massachusetts -- Brookline
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781000097337 |
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1000097331 |
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1000097374 |
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9781000097351 |
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1000097358 |
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9781003053644 |
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1003053645 |
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9781000097375 |
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