Urban exodus
why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed
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Author
Publication
1999 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL377525M
- ISBN-100674930703
- OCLC Control Number39677907
- OCLC Control Numberurbanexoduswhyje00gamm
- Library of Congress Control Number98039536
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1033955
- Goodreads5520177
Classifications
- DDC305.8/009744/6109045
- LCCF75.A1 G36 1999
Description
In telling the story of why the Jews left and the Catholics stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood institutions - churches, synagogues, community centers, and schools - at its center. He challenges the long-held assumption that bankers and real estate agents were responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of Catholic attachments to neighborhood and weakness of Jewish attachments. Because they are rooted, territorially defined, and hierarchical, parishes have frustrated the urban exodus of Catholic families. And because their survival was predicated on their portability and autonomy, Jewish institutions exacerbated the Jewish exodus.
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