A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities

During a time of rapid change in the American Jewish community, an outstanding group of Jewish scholars and professionals address the critical problems and futu

There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish educati

Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so th

Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imag