Book
Postville: a clash of cultures in heartland America
Harcourt
2000
Abstract
"In 1987, a group of Lubavitchers, one of the most orthodox and zealous of Jewish sects, opened a kosher slaughterhouse just outside tiny Postville, Iowa (pop. 1,465). When the business became a worldwide success, Postville found itself both revived and divided. The town's initial welcome of the Jews turned into confusion, dismay, and even disgust. By 1997, the town had engineered a vote on what everyone agreed was actually a referendum: whether or not these Jews should stay." "Stephen G. Bloom found himself with a bird's-eye view of this battle and gained a new perspective on questions that haunt America nationwide. What makes a community? How does one accept new and powerfully different traditions? Is money more important than history? In the dramatic and often poignant stories of the people of Postville - Jew and gentile, puzzled and puzzling, unyielding and unstoppable - lies a great swath of America today."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Postville: a clash of cultures in heartland America
- Creators
- Stephen G Bloom - University of Iowa, Journalism and Mass Communication
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Harcourt; New York
- ISBN
- 9780151006526; 0151006520
- Number of pages
- xiv, 338 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2000
- Academic Unit
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9983903697602771
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