Postville A Clash of Cultures in Hearland American by Stephen Bloom

This is not a new book. It was published in 2000. I read it because I was in charge of the morning Book Club this month. I am blogging about it because it was a really good book! You will recognize names in the book if you have been reading the Des Moines Register lately. Postville has been getting a lot of press. Anyway - on to the book itself. Bloom ended up moving to Iowa City from California along with his wife and son. They are Jewish - though at polar opposites from the Hasidims of Postville. Bloom felt isolated from the Jewish community living in Iowa, so at first he just wanted to re-connect. He ended up writing a fascinating book about the clash of two cultures in small-town Iowa. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants more information about the story in the headlines.