Lila Corwin Berman, "Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit "




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Summary: Lila Corwin BermanView on AmazonIn Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Lila Corwin Berman, Associate Professor of History, Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, and Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University, looks at how post-WWII American Jews retained a deep connection to cities, even after migrating to the suburbs in large numbers. A work of Jewish urban history, Berman's book investigates the enduring and evolving commitment of Detroit Jews to the city as a real and imagined space.