After the end of World War II, Americans across the United States began a mass migration from the urban centers to suburbia.
The architecture of the structures the Detroit Jewish Community has erected, such as Temple Beth El designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, testifies to the community\'s presence..
Issues of social justice, homeland, and religion have divided and brought people together.
Holidays, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals have marked the passage of time.
For the Jewish communities, life in the Detroit suburbs has been focused on family within a pluralism that embraces the spectrum of experience from the most religiously devout to the ethnically secular.
The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit: 1945 -2005 provides a pictorial history of the Detroit Jewish community\'s transition from the city to the suburbs outside of Detroit.
Entire neighborhoods transplanted themselves.
After the end of World War II, Americans across the United States began a mass migration from the urban centers to suburbia