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SURVIVALOF ANAMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY  \nEDITED BY Dan Rottenberg  \nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Dwight W.Hoover  \nIn Middletown(1929)and Middletown inTransition(1937)Robert and Helen Lyndset out to study a typical American com-munity.Their reports run to nearly 1,200pages,and virtually nothing in the typicallyAmerican town of Muncie,Indiana,escapedtheir notice,including a few references to aminuscule and virtually anonymous Jewishcommunity.\"The Jewish population ofMiddletown,\"the Lynds wrote,“is so smallas to be numerically negligible....There isfrank discrimination at critical points,suchas membership in Rotary,but in general itis mild,and the facts that the Jewish groupis so small,is made up of small merchants,and does not force the issue on the city,makethe Jewish issue slight.”  \nWhat did it mean to be a Jew in Muncie?That is what this book seeks to discover,through a series oforal narratives.Was therediscrimination,and what was it like?Whatsort of people settled in a small midwesterntown?How did they fare?The Jewish expe-rience in Muncie reflects what many simi-lar communities experienced in hundredsof Middletowns across the Midwest.  \n0  \n4  \n酱Middletown Jews  \n# 考Middletown Jews\n\nThe Tenuous Survival of an AmericanJewish Community  \nEDITED BYDAN ROTTENBERG  \nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BYDWIGHT W.HOOVER  \nIndiana University PressBloomington and Indianapolis  \n◎1997 by Dan Rottenberg  \nAll rights reserved  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in anyform or by any means,electronic or mechanical,includingphotocopying and recording,or by any informationstorage and retrieval system,without permission inwriting from the publisher.The Association of AmericanUniversity Presses'Resolution on Permissions constitutesthe only exception to this prohibition.  \nThe paper used in this publication meets the minimumrequirements of American National Standard for Informa-tion Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed LibraryMaterials,ANSI Z39.48-1984.  \nManufactured in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nMiddletown Jews:the tenuous survival of an AmericanJewish community/edited by Dan Rottenberg;withan introduction by Dwight M.Hoover  \np.  \ncm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references.ISBN0-253-33243-5(cloth:alk.paper)  \n1.Jews—Indiana—Muncie—History.2.Jews—Indiana—Muncie—Biography.3.Muncie (Ind.)—Ethnic relations.4.Muncie (Ind.)—Biography.5.Oralhistory.I.Rottenberg,Dan.F534.M9M531997977.2'65—dc2096-2279  \n123445  020100999897  \n力  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFACE viiBeyond the Lower East Side by Dan Rottenberg  \nEDITOR'S NOTE xiii  \nby Dan Rottenberg  \nINTRODUCTION xvTo Be a Jew in Middletown by Dwight W.Hoover  \n1  \nThe Beautiful Steak with the Pat of Butter 1MoRT PAZOL  \n2  \n\"I'm the Jew You're Talking About\"8BEN HERTZ  \n3  \nThe Klansman’s Beneficiary 15IDA AND ARCHIE LAPIN  \n4  \nAt Home with Gentiles 21RACHEL SHONFIELD LIPP  \n5  \n\"Muncie Will Always Be Home to Me\"25BuD RoTH  \n6  \n“You Were Not Dealing with Urban People”37SAM DOBROW  \n7  \nAvoiding the \"Note of Hatred\"41ANNA WINICK SCHWARTZ  \n\"You Can't Be Anonymous\"44MARTIN D.SCHWARTZ  \nILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOW PAGE 60  \n9  \nThe Gentile Wife 61BEULAH LAZAR  \n10  \nMankind Is Improving 67BERNARD FREUND  \n11  \n“There Was No Other Temple”74EDITH GARFIELD  \n12  \nReform vs.Orthodox 78PEARL SHONFIELD  \n13  \nAn Instinct for Survival 84BURLE PLANK  \n14  \nAJew Who Went Fishing 97  \nALLEN BURGAUER  \n15  \nTending to Business 102RoBERT BURGAUER  \n16  \nFrom Metropolis to County Seat 106JoE FREADLIN  \n17  \n“Nobody Seemed to Give a Damn Who Went to Church”110  \nA.C.BERNSTEIN  \n18  \nWhere the Klan Still Lives 116ANN KALLMEYER SECTTOR  \nThe Great Transformation 123SHERMAN ZEIGLER  \nEPILOGUE:Since 1979135AFTERWORD:Martin D.Schwartz 137BIBLIOGRAPHY 141","cbCaiaJvIQ9sw1Pt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaJvIQ9sw1Pt","pdf",8843450,198,"English","# Preface\n## Beyond the Lower East Side\n# Editor's 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