Poor Jews : an American awakening / edited by Naomi Levine and Martin Hochbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Naomi B., 1923-2021.

Contributor:

Hochbaum, Martin.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Economic conditions.

Jews.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

Economic conditions.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 206 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Books, [1974]

Contents:

I. Poverty Among Jews: The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis; The invisible Jewish poor / Ann G. Wolfe; Jews without money, revisited / Paul Cowan; The Hasidic poor in New York City / Phyllis Franck

2. The Jewish Response to the Jewish Poor: Some aspects of the Jewish attitude toward the welfare state / Isidore Twersky; Concept of Tzedakah in contemporary Jewish life / Leo Jung; Our Jewish poor: how can they be saved / Jerome M. Comar; Problems in serving Chicago's Jewish poor / Aviva Silberman

3. The Jewish Poor and the War against Poverty: Why Jews get less: a study of Jewish participation in the Poverty Program / Naomi Levine and Martin Hochbaum; Memorandum of Inspection Division / Office of Economic Opportunity; Re: Jewish poverty / Sol Levy and Bernard Weinberger

4. On Ending Jewish Poverty: The Jewish hospital and the Jewish community / William Kavesh; A systematic approach to poverty policy / Bruno Stein; Postscript: Elder's Lib / New York Times.

Notes:

"Cover Design: Rayne Ayers."

Includes bibliographies.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

0878550739

0878555706

OCLC:

1039029