Urban Exodus

Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed

Gerald Gamm

  • Winner of the 2000 Robert Park Award from the American Sociological Association for the Best Book in Urban Sociology
  • 2001 Tuttleman Foundation Book Award of Gratz College and the Tuttleman Family Foundation Prize

Maps and Figures

Prologue: The Church and the Temple

Flight

Introduction

Class, Crime, Homes, and Banks

Institutions and Neighborhood Change

Parish and Congregation

Jubilee Celebrations, 1910

Membership

Rootedness

Authority

Neighborhood

Towns, Suburbs, and Neighborhoods

Membership and Mobility

The Uprooted and the Rooted

Authority in an Age of Crisis

Epilogue: Return to the Church and the Temple

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Urban Exodus
  • A photo of the author

Gerald Gamm is Associate Professor of Political Science and History, University of Rochester.