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050 00 $aF319.M6$bM824 1994
082 00 $a975.9/381004924$220
100 1 $aMoore, Deborah Dash,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80078427
245 10 $aTo the golden cities :$bpursuing the American Jewish dream in Miami and L.A. /$cDeborah Dash Moore.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press ;$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $ax, 358 pages, 16 pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 336-342) and index.
505 0 $a1. On the Threshold -- 2. Entering Heaven -- 3. Permanent Tourists -- 4. Seeking Religious Roots -- 5. Spiritual Recreation -- 6. Politics in Paradise -- 7. Choosing Sides -- 8. Israel as Frontier -- 9. The New American Jew.
520 $aThe first great modern migration of the Jewish people, from the Old World to America, has been often and expertly chronicled, but until now the second great wave of Jewish migration has been overlooked. After World War II, spurred by a postwar economic boom, American Jews sought new beginnings in the nation's South and West.
520 8 $aThousands abandoned their previous homes in the urban, industrial centers of the North and moved to Miami and Los Angeles seeking warmth, opportunity, and ultimately a new Jewish community - one unlike any they had ever known. This move turned out to be as significant as their ancestors' departure from their traditional worlds
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aEarlier Jewish immigrants to the New World had sought to fit into the well-established communities they found in the North, but Miami and L.A. were frontier towns with few rules for newcomers. Jews could establish new economic niches in the hotel and real estate industries, and build new schools, political organizations, and community centers to reshape the cities' ethnic landscapes.
520 8 $aDrawing upon rich and extensive research, historian Deborah Dash Moore traces the evolution of a new consensus on the boundaries of Jewish life and what it means to be Jewish. In Miami, this consensus took shape through the struggles to define a community in the face of Christian anti-Semitism. In L.A., Jews were compelled to define their religious and political identities while pressure from HUAC hearings labeled many as communists.
520 8 $aBoth communities, spurred by the model of the strong, autonomous Jew emerging from the new state of Israel, fought restricted beaches and Christian prayer in schools and made their political presence known.
520 8 $aToday these sun-soaked, entrepreneurial communities have become part of a truly American, self-confident style of Judaism. Most American Jews have families or friends who have chosen to live in these urban paradises. Many others have visited or vacationed under their palm trees. Now the vibrant Jewish culture of these cities comes to life through Moore's skillful weaving of individual voices, dreams, and accomplishments.
520 8 $aTo the Golden Cities is an epic saga of an essential moment in American Jewish history, the shaping of a new postwar Judaism for the second half of the twentieth century.
650 0 $aJews$zFlorida$zMiami.
650 0 $aJews$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles.
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xMigrations.
650 0 $aMigration, Internal$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107776
651 0 $aMiami (Fla.)$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xEthnic relations.
740 0 $aGolden cities.
852 00 $bglx$hF319.M6$iM824 1994
852 00 $boff,glx$hF319.M6$iM824 1994