Philadelphia Jewish Life, 1940-2000 - Hardcover

Davies, Hunter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566399998 ISBN 13: 9781566399999

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In a city with a long history of high social barriers and forbidding aristocratic preserves, Philadelphia Jews, in the last half of the twentieth century, became a force to reckon with in the cultural, political and economic life of the region. From the poor neighborhoods of original immigrant settlement, in South and West Philadelphia, Jews have made, as Murray Friedman recounts, the move from outsiders to insiders in Philadelphia life. Essays by a diverse range of contributors tell the story of this transformation in many spheres of life, both in and out of the Jewish community: from sports, politics, political alliances with other minority groups, to the significant debate between Zionists and anti-Zionists during and immediately after the war. In this new edition, Friedman takes the history of Philadelphia Jewish life to the close of the twentieth century, and looks back on how Jews have shaped - and have been shaped by - Philadelphia and its long immigrant history.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A new edition of the classic history of Jewish cultural and political life in Philadelphia

About the Author:

Murray Friedman is Middle-Atlantic Regional Director of the American Jewish Committee and Director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, most recently (with Albert D. Chernin), A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews.

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1566399998
• ISBN 13: 9781566399999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Friedman Murray