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Campbell's and Class

“The children of Jewish immigrants were committed to creating identities in which their Jewishness, their membership in the middle class, and their Americanness were closely braided together.”  - Prell

"The Jew is not only a member of a religious minority, but also part of the majority of Americans known as the middle class.” - Albert Gordon, Jews in Suburbia (Boston: Beacon Press, 1959), 18.

“The price of Jewish assimilation was Jewish authenticity. The faces of this kind of assimilation were many: secularization, the feminization of Jewish life, and the decline of radical politics were all perceived, at various moments, as gauges of assimilationist tendencies. Middle-classness and suburbanization, however, emerged as two of the clearest signals of assimilation.” – Corwin Berman

 

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