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- Title
THE INCIDENCE OF JEWISH INTERMARRIAGE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
- Authors
Barron, Milton L.
- Abstract
The original Jews in the community arrived from Germany during the late nineteenth century. Here they peddled their merchandise from door to door and subsequently opened clothing, jewelry, and millinery stores in the central business section of the city as soon as they had accumulated some capital. It was not until the turn of the century that Jews immigrated in numbers sufficient to constitute an independent religious group. Most of these later immigrants were orthodox Jews from Russia and Poland; a few came from Hungary and Rumania. Almost all of them were merchants, catering to the needs of the immigrant gentiles whose languages they spoke. In 1905 the Jews organized a congregation, hiring the hail of a fraternal organization for Sabbath and Holy Day services. Previously they had attended synagogues in nearby communities or had formed prayer groups in their own homes. The premarital relations of Jewish boys and girls in Derby, England, with gentiles are similar to some caste relations, especially in regard to the sex taboo. They afford insight into the high rate of Jewish endogamy. For example, although it is quite common for a Jewish boy in Derby to have friends of his own sex among gentiles, it is only rarely that he will have a gentile "girl friend."
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS institutions; JEWS; IMMIGRANTS; SABBATH; GENTILES; HOUSES of prayer
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1946, Vol 11, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2085270