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Publication Date: January 1999
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Author(s): Eli Lederhendler
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Cities and Suburbs; Jewish culture; Residential patterns
Type: Report
Coverage: New York
Abstract:
This essay examines the reasons why New York City is the only city that, as a whole, has been imagined as a Jewish space: a "home," in the way that a shtetl or neighborhood is conceived as a home.
In Studies in Contemporary Jewry 15, 49-67.