Mapping Decline Jonathan Karp creating the structures and expectations

creating the structures and expectations that define the idea of “Americanness

Jewish Sunday Schools provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities

to strident anti-immigration and anti-welfare movements

and smelled like—from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store

Born in 1915 in the upscale Boston suburb of Wakefield to privilege

Mapping Decline Jonathan Karp creating the structures and expectationsOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and