Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Contemporary Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,4 (2021) 793-822
Schlagwort(e):
Suburbs
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
Ethnic neighborhoods
;
Suburban life
;
Group identity
Kurzfassung:
When Jewish suburbanization was last discussed over two decades ago, the narrative was disappearance: Jews assimilated and/or “became white folks” in the suburbs. I re-examine inner-ring Jewish suburbs through the lens of urban studies and find that the very stability of older Jewish suburbs that has rendered them invisible to Jewish social science makes them an exception to the overall decline of older suburbs in North America. I further argue that Jewish inner-ring suburbs are best understood from the transnational perspective of the “ethnoburb.” Understanding them as ethnoburbs transforms the long-standing understanding of Jewish suburbs as a site of assimilation into a geography of Jewish vitality both in terms of Jewish engagement and through demographic renewal.
DOI:
10.1007/s12397-022-09432-3
URL:
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