Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed

by Gerald H. Gamm

Book Overview

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston in the 1970s, Catholics were in the forefront of resistance. Jews, 70,000 of whom had lived in Roxbury and Dorchester in the early 1950s, were invisible during the crisis. They were silent because they departed the city more quickly and more thoroughly than Boston's Catholics. Only scattered Jews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674930703
• ISBN13: 9780674930704
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"