Synopses & Reviews
A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in America that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.
Review
"A trenchant history... Arthur Hertzberg is sounding an alarm that no Jew can afford to ignore if he cares about the survival of American Jewry." The Boston Globe
Review
"A useful and scrupulously fair account of what is a true American epic." The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Arthur Hertzberg, professor of Jewish Studies at New York University, is the author of numerous books, including The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader and The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism.