Famous quotes containing the words jewish and/or residents:
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious applicationwhy, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
—Howard Nemerov (19201991)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percentand often up to 75 percentof the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)