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Jews in Transition, by Albert I. Gordon
- Abstract
If we are now troubled by doubts as to what is the place of Jews in American life, that is in part at least because of the fact that there have been so few serious attempts to analyze the evidence. Some twenty years ago Louis Wirth, drawing on Chicago for his material, made one such effort. He interpreted the process of Jewish settlement in the United States as one of assimilation, marked by the gradual dissolution of the ghetto and the steady absorption of its members into the larger society about them. Even in 1928 this formula was not altogether adequate, for there had to be a qualification to account for what seemed to Wirth to be a “return to the ghetto.”
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