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Canada and the United States

Etan Diamond. And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xx, 215. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95.

The nomination of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000 introduced many Americans, including some assimilated American Jews, to the phenomenon of the modern Orthodox Jew. To be sure, Lieberman would be found on the liberal end of the spectrum of modern Orthodoxy. But he is by all accounts an observant Jew, strictly adhering to the laws regarding the Sabbath and keeping kosher. Jews like Lieberman can be found in the suburbs of many North American cities. In this book, which is both informative and very readable, Etan Diamond explores the surprising growth of suburban Orthodox Jewish communities, using Toronto as a case study. He focuses on the postwar growth of Orthodox communities in the suburbs of North York and further north in Thornhill. 1

This growth is surprising because scholars of modern Jewish life, beginning with the sociologist Louis Wirth in the 1920s, had consistently predicted that Orthodoxy was doomed in North America. They were wrong. This failure was part of the broader inability of scholars of religion to anticipate the persistence, revival, or growth of more traditional forms of Christianity and Islam as well. In fact, the beginning of this postwar Orthodox Jewish vibrancy in the 1950s and 1960s took place beneath the social scientific radar. . . .

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