The Jewish Mother
WWII also led to de-facto affirmative action programs for Jews, who had been excluded from government programs and education systems for decades. Some of that comes through the G.I. Bill, which afforded my great-grandparents enough support to buy a single-family home, but it also comes through the FHA redistricting maps and starting to grant loans to Jewish Americans. They could move outside of the city, could afford to have land. Even William L. Levitt of planned community infamy was Jewish! The suburban population of Jews doubled between the 50s and 60s, outpacing other groups' suburbanization, which averaged 29% (Prell).