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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Part, 1 Poverty Among Jews -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The Culture of Poverty / Oscar Lewis -- chapter 2 The Invisible Jewish Poor / Ann G. Wolfe -- chapter 3 Jews Without Money, Revisited / Paul Cowan -- chapter 4 The Hasidic Poor in New York City / Phyllis Franck -- part, 2 The Jewish Response to the Jewish Poor -- chapter 5 Some Aspects of the Jewish Attitude Toward the Welfare State / Isadore Twersky -- chapter 6 Concept of Tzedakah in Contemporary Jewish Life / Leo Jung -- chapter 7 Our Jewish Poor: How Can They Be Served? / Jerome M. Comar -- chapter 8 Problems in Serving Chicago's Jewish Poor / Aviva Silberman -- part, 3 The Jewish Poor and the War Against Poverty -- chapter 9 Why Jews Get Less: A Study of Jewish Participation in the Poverty Program / Naomi Levine Martin Hochbaum -- chapter 10 Memorandum of Inspection Division -- Office of Economic Opportunity -- chapter 11 Re: Jewish Poverty / Sol Levy Bernard Weinberger -- part, 4 On Ending Jewish Poverty -- chapter 12 The Jewish Hospital and the Jewish Community / William Kavesh -- chapter 13 A Systematic Approach to Poverty Policy / Bruno Stein -- chapter 14 Postscript: Elder's Lib -- New York Times |
| Summary |
"The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes. But this image is far from true. Poor Jews: An American Awakening shatters, once and for all, the stereotype of Jewish affluence. Citing national data and descriptions of the life-styles of the Jewish poor, the authors reveal unique social characteristics of the Jewish poor--including the surprising statistic that over two-thirds of the members of this group are past the age of sixty, thus experiencing the compounded disadvantage of being poor, elderly, and deserted by the young, mobile Jewish community. Reasons for the "invisibility" of Jewish poverty are examined, as well as how the Jewish community has responded to poverty within its own ethnic group and Jewish attitudes toward the welfare state and charity. The lack of Jewish participation in antipoverty programs is cited, along with measures which will bring them fully into this and other federal and state programs."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published 1974 by Transaction Publishers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Jews -- United States -- Economic conditions
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Poor -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Jews -- Economic conditions
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Poor
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levine, Naomi B., 1923-2021, editor
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Hochbaum, Martin, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351319447 |
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1351319442 |
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9781351319430 |
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1351319434 |
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9781351319423 |
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1351319426 |
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