| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 278 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3095-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5798-4.)

Joshua M. Zeitz's monograph contrasts Jewish and Catholic responses to social and cultural change in the twenty-five years after World War II. The dominant Catholic groups he studies are Irish and Italian. Zeitz seeks to capture the essential differences between Jews and Catholics to understand urban political changes and political coalitions. One major purpose of the study is to delineate the long period of erosion and the eventual disintegration in the 1960s of the Franklin D. Roosevelt–New Deal ethnic coalition. A second purpose is to demonstrate that "pluralism" among white ethnics was of lasting importance after World War II, despite the fact that most scholars have downplayed its vitality.

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