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Paperback / softback. New. Presents the story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This work reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. It presents an examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came. ISBN 0691005370 9780691005379 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0691005370, ISBN13: 9780691005379, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 440 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.
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Princeton Univ Pr 1999 Revised ed. Softcover New 440 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

ISBN10: 0691005370, ISBN13: 9780691005379, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 440 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0691005370, ISBN13: 9780691005379, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 ...
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