By Lila Corwin Berman
Complex and sophisticated, Metropolitan Jews pushes city scholarship past the tenacious black/white, urban/suburban dichotomy. It calls for a extra nuanced realizing of the method and politics of suburbanization and may reframe how we expect in regards to the American city scan and glossy Jewish history.
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