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Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, the author tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. He argues convincingly that though most Jews moved to the suburbs, urban abandonment, disinvestment, and more.

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"A brilliant intervention in intersecting areas of history, Metropolitan Jews is a significant and exciting contribution to scholarship on cities, suburbs, American Jews, postwar religion, and liberal politics. This is a subtle book, and one that will be read widely by scholars of cities and suburbs and of postwar religion and politics. It opens a fresh and exciting perspective on suburbanization, Jewish urban politics, and the postwar transformation of Judaism. Berman tells this complex story filled with pathos beautifully." (Deborah Dash Moore, author of Urban Origins of American Judaism)

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/6/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226247830, 978-0226247830
      ISBN10: 022624783X
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      Book Synopsis
      Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, the author tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. He argues convincingly that though most Jews moved to the suburbs, urban abandonment, disinvestment, and more.

      Trade Review
      "A brilliant intervention in intersecting areas of history, Metropolitan Jews is a significant and exciting contribution to scholarship on cities, suburbs, American Jews, postwar religion, and liberal politics. This is a subtle book, and one that will be read widely by scholars of cities and suburbs and of postwar religion and politics. It opens a fresh and exciting perspective on suburbanization, Jewish urban politics, and the postwar transformation of Judaism. Berman tells this complex story filled with pathos beautifully." (Deborah Dash Moore, author of Urban Origins of American Judaism)

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