Class, networks, and identity : replanting Jewish lives from Nazi Germany to rural New York
This is an account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages that were primarily Christian.
240 pages
9780742509924, 9780742509931, 0742509923, 0742509931
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Chapter 1 Structural Adaptation, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity: The Untold Story of Rural German Jewish Immigrants Chapter 2 Old World Patterns: Cattle Dealing and Jewish Life in Rural Germany Chapter 3 Disrupted Lives: From Nazi Germany to Washington Heights Chapter 4 The Story of Milk Chapter 5 Plowing New Fields: Resettling in Rural New York Chapter 6 Old Patterns in a New Setting: Cattle Dealing and German Jews Chapter 7 Getting Together: Creating Community and Maintaining Ethnic Identity Chapter 8 Continuities and Discontinuities Chapter 9 Finding Sociology in Unlikely Places Chapter 10 References