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Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940. - book reviews
Journal of Social History, Winter, 1997 by Deborah Dash Moore
One might think small city life boring, especially for a group that appeared to disappear from the consciousness of the city's power elite, succeeding in remaining inconspicuous. Yet such is the subtle presentation and textured interpretation Morawska offers that Johnstown Jews become a microcosm of the most complex developments in social and immigrant history. Her engaging (self)reflections on the making of the book in the appendix reveal why. Johnstown Jews gave Morawska a template to test theories, refine methods, and modulate interpretations of data and "data as text." Minimizing whatever conflict existed among Johnstown Jews, Morawska reclaimed a lost world for herself. In the process, she set a new standard for historical and sociologicai studies of immigrants, small city societies, middle-class culture, and American Jews.
Deborah Dash Moore Vassar College
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