Acculturation Without Assimilation? the Jewish Community of Chicago, Illinois

Abstract

The settlement pattern of the Jewish population of Chicago has been interpreted in terms of the successive stages of the "race-relation cycle" from acculturation to assimilation. An examination of the recent relocation of this population at the northern city limits and beyond indicates that this spatial concentration is a result of the housing market as well as of the desire for voluntary segregation. Voluntary segregation in a high-status area combined with a modicum of Jewish education appears to be effective in preventing large-scale assimilation.