A Good Living https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/02/a-good-living/

February 11, 2014 | Jenna Weissman Joselit
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Having been precluded from owning property in the Old World, many American Jews embraced real estate as a proud symbol of newly won freedom.  

Read more on Forward: http://forward.com/articles/192261/how-jews-gave-real-estate-a-good-name/?p=1