Adapting to Abundance
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ISBN: 0231068530 / Publisher: Columbia University Press, October 1992
Between 1880 and 1914, Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side defined them...
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Between 1880 and 1914, Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side defined themselves as American not only by their occupations or education but by their spending practices as well. Jewish immigrants assimilated into American culture through the purchase of fashions, material goods, and resort vacations, combined with Jewish social and religious traditions to create a unique and innovative American identity.
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