In this Book
- Making of an Ethnic Middle Class: Portland Jewry over Four Generations
- Book
- 1982
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 1-2
- Conclusion
- pp. 191-195
- Appendix: Sources and Methods
- pp. 196-202
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438422251
MARC Record
OCLC
794701324
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No