Rhonda F. Levine is associate professor of sociology at Colgate University.

• Chapter 1 Structural Adaptation, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity: The Untold Story of Rural German Jewish ImmigrantsChapter 2 Old World Patterns: Cattle Dealing and Jewish Life in Rural GermanyChapter 3 Disrupted Lives: From Nazi Germany to Washington HeightsChapter 4 The Story of MilkChapter 5 Plowing New Fields: Resettling in Rural New YorkChapter 6 Old Patterns in a New Setting: Cattle Dealing and German JewsChapter 7 Getting Together: Creating Community and Maintaining Ethnic IdentityChapter 8 Continuities and DiscontinuitiesChapter 9 Finding Sociology in Unlikely PlacesChapter 10 References

Levine has done the readers of this book an important service in two ways. She has captured with enormous sensitivity an interesting part of American Jewish history. At the same time, she has provided students of sociology with a rich case study that demonstrates the intersection of social networks and the nature of ethnic identity.

Rhonda F. Levine is associate professor of sociology at Colgate University.

• Chapter 1 Structural Adaptation, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity: The Untold Story of Rural German Jewish ImmigrantsChapter 2 Old World Patterns: Cattle Dealing and Jewish Life in Rural GermanyChapter 3 Disrupted Lives: From Nazi Germany to Washington HeightsChapter 4 The Story of MilkChapter 5 Plowing New Fields: Resettling in Rural New YorkChapter 6 Old Patterns in a New Setting: Cattle Dealing and German JewsChapter 7 Getting Together: Creating Community and Maintaining Ethnic IdentityChapter 8 Continuities and DiscontinuitiesChapter 9 Finding Sociology in Unlikely PlacesChapter 10 References

Levine has done the readers of this book an important service in two ways. She has captured with enormous sensitivity an interesting part of American Jewish history. At the same time, she has provided students of sociology with a rich case study that demonstrates the intersection of social networks and the nature of ethnic identity.

Rhonda F. Levine is associate professor of sociology at Colgate University.

• Chapter 1 Structural Adaptation, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity: The Untold Story of Rural German Jewish ImmigrantsChapter 2 Old World Patterns: Cattle Dealing and Jewish Life in Rural GermanyChapter 3 Disrupted Lives: From Nazi Germany to Washington HeightsChapter 4 The Story of MilkChapter 5 Plowing New Fields: Resettling in Rural New YorkChapter 6 Old Patterns in a New Setting: Cattle Dealing and German JewsChapter 7 Getting Together: Creating Community and Maintaining Ethnic IdentityChapter 8 Continuities and DiscontinuitiesChapter 9 Finding Sociology in Unlikely PlacesChapter 10 References

Levine has done the readers of this book an important service in two ways. She has captured with enormous sensitivity an interesting part of American Jewish history. At the same time, she has provided students of sociology with a rich case study that demonstrates the intersection of social networks and the nature of ethnic identity.