@article{1478417,
      recid = {1478417},
      author = {Gamm, Gerald, },
      title = {Urban Exodus : Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics  Stayed /},
      pages = {1 online resource (400 p.)},
      abstract = {Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for  suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods.  When the busing crisis erupted in Boston in the 1970s,  Catholics were in the forefront of resistance. Jews, 70,000  of whom had lived in Roxbury and Dorchester in the early  1950s, were invisible during the crisis. They were silent  because they departed the city more quickly and more  thoroughly than Boston's Catholics. Only scattered Jews  remained in Dorchester and Roxbury by the mid-1970s. In  telling the story of why the Jews left and the Catholics  stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood  institutions--churches, synagogues, community centers,  schools--at its center. He challenges the long-held  assumption that bankers and real estate agents were  responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according  to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of  Catholic attachments to neighborhood and the weakness of  Jewish attachments. Because they are rooted, territorially  defined, and hierarchical, parishes have frustrated the  urban exodus of Catholic families. And because their  survival was predicated on their portability and autonomy,  Jewish institutions exacerbated the Jewish exodus. Gamm  shows that the dramatic transformation of urban  neighborhoods began not in the 1950s or 1960s, but in the  1920s. Not since Anthony Lukas's Common Ground has there  been a book that so brilliantly explores not just Boston's  dilemma but the roots of the American urban crisis.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478417},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037489},
}