Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813124308
Pub Date: 17 Aug 2007
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Ohio River Valley Series
Illustrations: photos, map
Description:
In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz chronicles the settlement and development of small Jewish communities in towns along the river. In these small towns, Jewish citizens created networks of businesses and families that developed into a distinctive, nineteenth-century middle-class culture. As a minority group with a vital role in each community, Ohio Valley Jews fostered American religious pluralism as they constructed a regional identity.