ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the upper-class structures within two other subcultural worlds-the Quaker and the Jewish. In Philadelphia in 1940, there were many subcultural worlds with parallel class structures roughly similar to those Hollingshead found in New Haven. These diverse and more or less isolated, racial, religious, or ethnic worlds were, in turn, represented in the elite. At the upper-class level, Philadelphia's Quaker aristocracy remained apart from the fashionable Episcopalian world down to the period when most of the men in the 1940 elite were growing up; they lived isolated lives on Rittenhouse Square, north of Market Street, or in Germantown. The Jewish community in Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most influential in America. Socially isolated from the Gentile world in an infinite variety of ways, this ethnic and religious community perpetuates an ancient and rich cultural tradition. The development of the Jewish summer resort was not solely due to the increasing affluence of the Jewish upper class.