Postville (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen G. Bloom
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: 1987-2000
- Setting: United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Midwest, 1980’s, Jews or Jewish life, 1990’s, Jews and Gentiles, Iowa
- Locales: United States
The United States Census Bureau reports that the American population topped 281 million in the year 2000, a ten-year gain of about 13 percent in a country that is more pluralistic—ethnically, culturally, religiously—than ever before. A tiny fraction of those people inhabit Postville, Iowa. Its less than 1,500 rural residents live in the northeastern part of the state, not far from the Mississippi River and the state’s Wisconsin-Minnesota line, where 90 percent of the people have Lutheran roots. Iowa’s population of 2.8 million gets its largest income from manufacturing, but this...
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