{"id":12542,"date":"2016-06-16T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:48:59","slug":"metropolitan-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2016\/06\/16\/metropolitan-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class='panopto-iframe'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe \n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/pages\/embed.aspx?id=fdd8a12f-8e44-43d0-841c-aeae01733d48&amp;start=0'\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth='720'\n\t\t\t            height='405'\n\t\t\t            frameborder='0'\n\t\t\t            allowfullscreen='true'\n\t\t\t            allow='autoplay'\n\t\t\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2016\/06\/LilaBerman.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12568 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2016\/06\/LilaBerman-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"LilaBerman\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/record=b5808732~S30\">Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2015), History Professor\u00a0Lila Berman analyzes\u00a0the Jewish sense of place in Detroit during the twentieth century,\u00a0first in\u00a0neighborhoods such as Hastings Street, Dexter-Davison, and Bagley and then in the wider metropolitan area. In the first half century, Jews settled near the Detroit River and then gradually moved north and west. While there was little Jewish presence in the booming auto industry, Jews\u00a0opened small business establishments, became involved in real estate, and pursued educational opportunities as the community developed vibrant religious and civic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>At mid-century, Detroit began experiencing\u00a0many of the convulsions that would shake\u00a0other eastern and midwestern cities.\u00a0The auto industry, which had built Detroit, began shifting its operations outside the city. White flight accompanied de-industrialization as federally subsidized mortgage loans financed new suburban housing developments from which African Americans were excluded. Detroit began losing popuation\u00a0while the percentage of African Americans increased and the tax base shrank. For those Jews who remained, there were intense struggles over race, politics, employment, and housing.<\/p>\n<p>Many Jews joined other white ethnics leaving Detroit.\u00a0As the Jewish community became more established outside the city limits, what were the considerations with regards to synagogues, religious and civic organizations, and homes and businesses left behind? And how did the Jewish community respond to the struggles over politics, employment, and housing? Lila Berman tells the story of the Jewish community and its sense of place as it grew from small city neighborhoods to the wider Detroit metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to Lila Berman on March 28, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/staff?search=rowland\">&#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2015), History Professor\u00a0Lila Berman analyzes\u00a0the Jewish sense of place in Detroit during the twentieth century,\u00a0first in\u00a0neighborhoods such as Hastings Street, Dexter-Davison, and Bagley and then in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2016\/06\/16\/metropolitan-jews\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,3,5,81],"tags":[109,13,188,177,23],"class_list":["post-12542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-human-sciences","category-religion","category-rowland","tag-interview","tag-jewish-studies","tag-religion","tag-talking-about-books","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13596,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}