William Toll teaches American Jewish history at the University of Oregon.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Social Process and Ethnic Identity, A Complex Relationship

1. Ethnicity, Mobility, and Class: The Origins of a Jewish Social Structure, 1855-1900

2. Jewish Women and Social Modernization, 1870-1930

3. Civic Activism: The Public and Private Sources of Ethnic Identity

4. The Immigrant District and the New Middle Class, 1900-1930

5. An Entrenched Middle Class and a Politicized Ethnicity, 1930-1045

Conclusion

A Note on Sources and Methods

Notes

Index