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Book Review

Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York. By Rhonda F. Levine. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $79.00, ISBN 0-7425-0992-3. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7425-0993-1.)
This book tells a fascinating story. In the 1930s, when Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic terror sent a hundred thousand Jews to seek exile in the United States, numerous Jewish cattle-dealing and dairy-farming families settled in central New York State. The wartime and postwar economy and the surge in urbanization rewarded efficient dairy farmers and astute cattle dealers. From this economic and cultural base the newcomers "replanted" their distinctive cultural identities and social networks. Hence the title, Class, Networks, and Identity. . . .
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