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The making of an ethnic middle class : Portland Jewry over four generations / William Toll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toll, William.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Oregon--Portland--History.
- Jews.
- Middle class--Oregon--Portland.
- Middle class.
- Portland (Or.)--Ethnic relations.
- Portland (Or.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class explains how European Jews of diverse cultural and social backgrounds coalesced over four generations into a middle-class community. By utilizing numerous oral histories to complement statistical data from public sources such as the federal manuscript censuses and public school enrollment cards, William Toll has succeeded in tracing in minute detail the contours of change. The study focuses particularly on the role of women to demonstrate how dramatic changes in the size and composition of the family and in sex roles, more than changes in the workplace, eroded European traditions.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Social Process and EthnicIdentity, A Complex Relationship""; ""Introduction: Social Process and Ethnic Identity, A Complex Relationship""; ""Content""; ""Ethnicity, Mobility, and Class: The Origins of a Jewish Social Structure, 1855-1900""; ""Jewish Women and Social Modernization 1870
- 1930""; ""Civic Activism: The Public and Private Sources of Ethnic Identity""
- ""The Immigrant District and the New Middle Class:1900-1930"" ""An Entrenched Middle Class and a Politicized Ethnicity 1930-1945""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix: Sources and Methods""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438422251
- 1438422253
- OCLC:
- 794701324
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