The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945-2005

Barry Stiefel

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2006
• ISBN:
  9781439616857
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

After the end of World War II, Americans across the United States began a mass migration from the urban centers to suburbia. Entire neighborhoods transplanted themselves. The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945 "2005 provides a pictorial history of the Detroit Jewish community's transition from the city to the suburbs outside of Detroit. For the Jewish communities, life in the Detroit suburbs has been focused on family within a pluralism that embraces the spectrum of experience from the most religiously devout to the ethnically secular. Holidays, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals have marked the passage of time. Issues of social justice, homeland, and religion have divided and brought people together. The architecture of the structures the Detroit Jewish community has erected, such as Temple Beth El designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, testifies to the community's presence.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - JEWISH DETROIT AFTER THE WAR
• Two - LIFE IN THE SURROUNDING SUBURBS
• Three - LIFE SOUTH OF THE DETROIT RIVER WINDSOR
• Four - METROPOLITAN SATELLITES ANN ARBOR, YPSILANTI, AND FLINT
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX