Jewish Americana
“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.”
- Berman
Similarly, Bardis, a prominent Jewish sociologist in the 1950s, found an inverse relationship between Jews' “gentile” education and their connection with their families: the more suburban, the less Jewish.