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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on September 29, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):281-283; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp063
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How Strange it Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England

M. Rachel Gholson

Missouri State University

HOW STRANGE IT SEEMS: THE CULTURAL LIFE OF JEWS IN SMALL-TOWN NEW ENGLAND. By Michael Hoberman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. 253 pp. Hardbound, $80.00; Softbound, $28.95.

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Employing a social-historical approach, Hoberman presents small-town Jewish life in New England from 1900 to 2000. His detailed consideration of historic immigration patterns notes that success was based on economic opportunity in farming, peddling, junk and scrap metal dealing, and most recently organic farming. Success came first economically, then personally and communally, as economic stability allowed early immigrants to build communities, temples, and eventually to hold strictly to the Sabbath.

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