Jews in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780870135989
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; Jewish studies; Social groups & communities; United States - State & Local - General; Jews In The U.S.; Michigan - Local History; Sociology; History: American; Michigan; Jewish - General; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; History; Ethnic Studies - General; Ethnic relations; Jews
Description: "Since the earliest days of the British fur trade, Jewish pioneers have made Michigan their home. Judith Levin Cantor's Jews in Michigan captures the struggles and triumphs of Michigan's Jews as they worked to establish farms, businesses and synagogues, sparking commercial and residential development throughout the state, and even into the far reaches of the Upper Peninsula.

Cantor celebrates both urban and rural immigrants, who supplied essential goods and services to those in lumbering, mining, and automobile manufacturing. She also deals honestly with questions of anti-Semitism and prejudice. Cantor's book shows how, in the quest to build strong communities, Jewish residents also helped create the foundations of the Michigan we know today."--BOOK JACKET.