Making a life, building a community
Subtitle: a history of the Jews of Hartford
By: David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Contributors: Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1947-
Publisher: Holmes & Meier
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Jews -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.; Judaism -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.; Hartford (Conn.) -- Ethnic relations.
Description: 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 memoirs, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-316) and index.