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Posted on: May 13th, 2008
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Postville became a melting pot in 1987 with the arrival of 200 Hasidic Jews who turned a defunct meatpacking plant into a kosher slaughterhouse.
Business boomed at the plant, reviving the economy while pitting the newcomers against the Lutheran community.
Stephen Bloom detailed the struggle in his 2000 book, “Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America.” When the slaughterhouse first opened, local workers were given jobs. Then in the early 1990s, Eastern European workers came to work in the plant.”*
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