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And I Will Dwell in Their Midst
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by Etan Diamond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 215 pp. $39.95 (c); $18.95 (p).
This book is a thorough picture of the Orthodox Jewish community in suburban Toronto. In seven well-documented chapters, Diamond deals with the history, geography, and culture of a major North American Jewish community, focusing on its paradoxical combination of modernity/consumerism with tradition/religiosity, as this has developed during the past 60 years or so. Its title is from Sh'mos/Exodus Chap. 25, verse 8.
The author has included a number of interesting demographic tables and maps, making sure that the historical material is not merely impressionistic or …
