Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity

By Nora Rose Moosnick

Book Overview

Some Americans continue to perceive Arab and Jewish immigrants and their descendants as outsiders-outsiders who belong to two distinct groups with a historically adversarial relationship to each other. What happens, though, when Arabs and Jews find themselves in a place such as Kentucky, separated from communities in their home countries or big American cities? As a child in Lexington, Kentucky, Nora Rose Moosnick accompanied her father on his many outings to local stores and businesses and obse

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813136210
• ISBN13: 9780813136219
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary