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BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading...
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading...
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Whether or not one agrees, their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology and freewheeling statements about national characteristics make excellent reading...
...Glazer, the son of Jewish immigrants, and Moynihan, the grandson of Irish immigrants, write with a refreshing candor on a subject that is usually treated all too delicately; in fact, they are rather free with sweeping generalizations. They write compassionately of the problems minority groups have faced, but they forthrightly point out that many of those problems are compounded by each group's special characteristics...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...