Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
ISBN-10
022624783X
ISBN-13
9780226247830
Category
History
Pages
324
Language
English
Published
2015-05-06
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Lila Corwin Berman

Description

In this provocative urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit s Jews have played in the city s well-known narratives of migration and decline. Like other Detroiters in the 1960s and 1970s, Jews left the city for the suburbs in large numbers. But Berman makes the case that they nevertheless constituted themselves as urban people, and she shows how complex spatial and political relationships existed within the greater metropolitan region. By insisting on the existence and influence of a metropolitan consciousness, Berman reveals the complexity and contingency of what did and didn t change as regions expanded in the postwar era."

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