Poor Jews : An American Awakening / Naomi Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Naomi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Economic conditions.

Jews.

Poor--United States.

Poor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes. But this image is far from true. Poor Jews: An American Awakening shatters, once and for all, the stereotype of Jewish affluence.Citing national data and descriptions of the life-styles of the Jewish poor, the authors reveal unique social characteristics of the Jewish poorincluding the surprising statistic that over two-thirds of the members of this group are past the age of sixty, thus experiencing the compounded disadvantage of being poor, elderly, and deserted by the young, mobile Jewish community.Reasons for the "invisibility" of Jewish poverty are examined, as well as how the Jewish community has responded to poverty within its own ethnic group and Jewish attitudes toward the welfare state and charity. The lack of Jewish participation in antipoverty programs is cited, along with measures which will bring them fully into this and other federal and state programs."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

part, 1 Poverty Among Jews

chapter Introduction

chapter 1 The Culture of Poverty / Oscar Lewis

chapter 2 The Invisible Jewish Poor / Ann G. Wolfe

chapter 3 Jews Without Money, Revisited / Paul Cowan

chapter 4 The Hasidic Poor in New York City / Phyllis Franck

part, 2 The Jewish Response to the Jewish Poor

chapter 5 Some Aspects of the Jewish Attitude Toward the Welfare State / Isadore Twersky

chapter 6 Concept of Tzedakah in Contemporary Jewish Life / Leo Jung

chapter 7 Our Jewish Poor: How Can They Be Served? / Jerome M. Comar

chapter 8 Problems in Serving Chicago’s Jewish Poor / Aviva Silberman

part, 3 The Jewish Poor and the War Against Poverty

chapter 9 Why Jews Get Less: A Study of Jewish Participation in the Poverty Program / Naomi Levine Martin Hochbaum

chapter 10 Memorandum of Inspection Division

Office of Economic Opportunity

chapter 11 Re: Jewish Poverty / Sol Levy Bernard Weinberger

part, 4 On Ending Jewish Poverty

chapter 12 The Jewish Hospital and the Jewish Community / William Kavesh

chapter 13 A Systematic Approach to Poverty Policy / Bruno Stein

chapter 14 Postscript: Elder's Lib

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-31942-6

1-351-31944-2

1-351-31943-4

9781351319447

OCLC:

1004086966