American Jewry's Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-first Century

by Manfred Gerstenfeld

Book Overview

Watershed events_including the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, September 11, 2001 and the Iraq war_have created important new challenges for American Jewry. The introductory essay and interviews with 17 prominent American Jews explore these. Major elements of American Jewry's changing mind-set relate to Israel. Others concern attitudes toward Evangelical Christians and Muslims as well as increased anxiety about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742542831
• ISBN13: 9780742542839
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"