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Middletown Jews The Tenuous Survival Of

by Dan Rottenberg

ISBN13: 9780253332431
ISBN10: 0253332435

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What did it mean to be a Jew in Muncie? Was there discrimination, and what was it like? What sort of people settled in a small Midwestern town? How did they fare? This book addresses these questions through a series of oral narratives. The Jewish experience in Muncie reflects what many similar communities experienced in hundreds of Middletowns across the Midwest.

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What did it mean to be a Jew in Muncie? That is what this book seeks to discover, through a series of oral narratives.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142).

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ISBN:: 9780253332431
Binding:: Hardcover
Publication date:: 11/01/2000
Publisher:: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages:: 192
Height:: 8.82 in.
Width:: 5.52 in.
Thickness:: .96 in.
Number of Units:: 1
Illustration:: Yes
Series Volume:: 890.
Author:: Dan Rottenberg
Author:: Dwight W. Hoover
Subject:: Jews
Subject:: Muncie
Subject:: History
Subject:: Ethnic relations
Subject:: Oral history
Subject:: Muncie (Ind.) Biography.

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