Title: Postville
Subtitle: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
Description: "In 1987, a group of Lubavitchers, one of the most orthodox and zealous of Jewish sects, opened a kosher slaughterhouse just outside tiny Postville, Iowa (pop. 1,465). When the business became a worldwide success, Postville found itself both revived and divided. The town's initial welcome of the Jews turned into confusion, dismay, and even disgust. By 1997, the town had engineered a vote on what everyone agreed was actually a referendum: whether or not these Jews should stay.".

"Stephen G. Bloom found himself with a bird's-eye view of this battle and gained a new perspective on questions that haunt America nationwide. What makes a community? How does one accept new and powerfully different traditions? Is money more important than history? In the dramatic and often poignant stories of the people of Postville - Jew and gentile, puzzled and puzzling, unyielding and unstoppable - lies a great swath of America today."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Politics and government, Jews, Ethnic relations, Hasidim, History, Culturele minderheden, Joden, Platteland, United states, social conditions, 1980-, New York Times reviewed, Hasidism, Iowa, history, local, Jews, united states, history, Iowa, politics and government, United states, ethnic relations
Places: Postville, Iowa, Postville (Iowa)
People: Stephen G. Bloom