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Urban exodus : why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed / Gerald Gamm.
LIBRA F75.A1 G36 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gamm, Gerald H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes.
- History.
- Migration, Internal.
- Catholics.
- Jews.
- Boston (Mass.)--Race relations.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Boston (Mass.)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Massachusetts--Boston--Attitudes--History--20th century.
- Catholics--Massachusetts--Boston--Attitudes--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal--Massachusetts--Boston--History--20th century.
- Social classes--Massachusetts--Boston--History--20th century.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Catholics--Attitudes.
- Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Attitudes.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- x, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In telling the story of why the Jews left Boston's urban areas while the Catholics stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood institutions -- churches, synagogues, community centers, schools -- at its center. He challenges the long-held assumption that bankers and real estate agents were responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of Catholic attachments to neighborhood and the weakness of Jewish attachments. Because they are rooted, territorially defined, and hierarchical, parishes have frustrated the urban exodus of Catholic families. And because their survival was predicated on their portability and autonomy, Jewish institutions accelerated the Jewish exodus.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Church and the Temple 1
- I Flight
- 2 Class, Crime, Homes, and Banks 30
- 3 Institutions and Neighborhood Change 56
- II Parish and Congregation
- 4 Jubilee Celebrations, 1910 99
- 5 Membership 113
- 6 Rootedness 129
- 7 Authority 141
- III Neighborhood
- 8 Towns, Suburbs, and Neighborhoods 175
- 9 Membership and Mobility 184
- 10 The Uprooted and the Rooted 222
- 11 Authority in an Age of Crisis 261
- Epilogue: Return to the Church and the Temple 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674930703
- 9780674930704
- 0674005589
- 9780674005587
- OCLC:
- 47059438
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