Poor Jews

The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes. But this image is far from true. "Poor Jews: An American Awakening" shatters, once and for all, the stereotype of Jewish affluence. Citing national data and descriptions of the life-styles of the Jewish poor, the authors reveal unique social characteristics of the Jewish poor--including the surprising statistic that over two-thirds of the members of this group are past the age of sixty, thus experiencing the compounded disadvantage of being poor, elderly, and deserted by…