Metropolitan Jews
Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
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Metropolitan Jews
Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in the city’s well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, Metropolitan Jews tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. Berman argues convincingly that though most Jews moved to the suburbs, urban abandonment, disinvestment, and an embrace of conservatism did not invariably accompany their moves. Instead, the Jewish postwar migration was marked by an enduring commitment to a newly fashioned urbanism with a vision of self, community, and society that persisted well beyond city limits.
Complex and subtle, Metropolitan Jews pushes urban scholarship beyond the tenacious black/white, urban/suburban dichotomy. It demands a more nuanced understanding of the process and politics of suburbanization and will reframe how we think about the American urban experiment and modern Jewish history.
Complex and subtle, Metropolitan Jews pushes urban scholarship beyond the tenacious black/white, urban/suburban dichotomy. It demands a more nuanced understanding of the process and politics of suburbanization and will reframe how we think about the American urban experiment and modern Jewish history.
320 pages | 30 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2015
Historical Studies of Urban America
History: American History, Urban History
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Jews and the American City
Chapter 1. Locating and Relocating the Jewish Neighborhoods of Detroit
Chapter 2. Keeping House in the City: The Local Politics of Urban Space
Chapter 3. Changing Jewish Neighborhoods
Chapter 4. From Neighborhood to City: The Formation of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
Chapter 5. The Sacred Suburban Sites of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
Chapter 6. Urban Crises and the Privatization of Jewish Urbanism
Chapter 7. Epilogue: Back-to-the-City Jews and the Legacies of Metropolitan Urbanism
Acknowledgments
Archival Collections, Interviews, and Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Chapter 1. Locating and Relocating the Jewish Neighborhoods of Detroit
Chapter 2. Keeping House in the City: The Local Politics of Urban Space
Chapter 3. Changing Jewish Neighborhoods
Chapter 4. From Neighborhood to City: The Formation of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
Chapter 5. The Sacred Suburban Sites of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
Chapter 6. Urban Crises and the Privatization of Jewish Urbanism
Chapter 7. Epilogue: Back-to-the-City Jews and the Legacies of Metropolitan Urbanism
Acknowledgments
Archival Collections, Interviews, and Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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