Middletown Jews
Subtitle: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780253332431
Subjects: American history; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; History Of Jews; Jewish Sociology; History; History - General History; Religion; USA; Jewish; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; United States - State & Local; Jewish - General; Biography; Indiana; Jews; Muncie; Oral history
First sentence: My grandfather settled in Cleveland very early-probably in the late 1870s.
Description: What did it mean to be a Jew in Muncie? That is what this book seeks to discover, through a series of oral narratives. Was there discrimination, and what was it like? What sort of people settled in a small midwestern town? How did they fare? The Jewish experience in Muncie reflects what many similar communities experienced in hundreds of Middletowns across the Midwest.