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The American Jewish Condition
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14203 |
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BOOK WORLD
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7 / 1988 |
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Edward S. Shapiro
Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history at Seton Hall
University and author of The Letters of Sidney Hook:
Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War (1995). |
UNEASY AT HOME
Anti-Semitism and the American Jewish Experience
Leonard Dinnerstein
New York: Columbia University Press, 1987
281 pp., $25
AMERICAN ASSIMILATION OR JEWISH REVIVAL?
Steven M. Cohen
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1988
192 pp., $27.50
It is difficult today to take American anti-Semitism seriously. Within the last decade or so, Jews have penetrated the highest echelons of the American society and economy. Jews have served as the secretaries of state and defense, as chairman of the National Security Council and head of the Postal Service, and as the presidents of the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University. A Jew even had the temerity to turn down the presidency of Yale University, preferring to remain at Harvard where presumably he, along with the Cabots and Lodges, could talk to God. A Jew is rumored to be named the next chief of the Chrysler Corporation, Jews have been presidents of the nation's major stock exchanges, and a Jew is head of the Wall Street Journal, the most important of American daily newspapers. A Jew is even president of the corporation that arguably has had the greatest impact on American culture--Walt Disney Productions.
Jews have moved into the higher ranks of the eastern banking elite, among the
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