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From the back cover: MAKING A LIFE, BUILDING A COMMUNITY places Hartford within the larger contexts of American social, urban, ethnic, and Jewish history by comparing its unique experience to those of New England and other American Jewish communities. Drawing extensively on primary sources such as synagogue minute books, newspapers, family memories, and an important new collection of oral histories, the authors skillfully document internal divisions and issues of communal cohesiveness. this careful study will be illuminating for anyone interested in American social or ethnic history and the immigrant experience.
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David G. Salin is associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Hartford. Jonathan Rosenbaum is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford and the director of its Greenberg Centre.
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