Description |
1 online resource (93 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Discovering the peoples of Michigan |
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Discovering the peoples of Michigan.
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Contents |
Opportunities and Challenges -- A Statewide Presence -- A New Era of Industry -- World War I and its Aftermath -- The Second World War and Its Legacy -- SIDEBARS -- "Bridge at Mackinac" -- Myra Wolfgang -- "A Tribute to Hank Greenberg" -- Medal of Honor |
Summary |
Since the earliest days of the British fur trade, Jewish pioneers have made Michigan their home. Judith Levin Cantor''s Jews in Michigan captures the struggles and triumphs of Michigan''s Jews as they worked to establish farms, businesses and synagogues, sparking commercial and residential development throughout the state, and even into the far reaches of the Upper Peninsula. Cantor celebrates both urban and rural immigrants, who supplied essential goods and services to those in lumbering, mining, and automobile manufacturing. She also deals honestly with questions of anti-Semitism and prejud |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-82) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Jews -- Michigan -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Ethnic relations.
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Jews.
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SUBJECT |
Michigan -- Ethnic relations
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Subject |
Michigan.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781609174293 |
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1609174291 |
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9781628950281 |
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1628950285 |
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9781609174231 |
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1609174232 |
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0870135988 |
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9780870135989 |
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