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The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Dershowitz, Alan M
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Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has mild edgewear. Book has a bumped corner. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. Dershowitz is a renown defense lawyer (clients include Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Claus von B�low, and Jim Bakker; he also served as an advisor to the OJ Simpson defense team) and author of numerous fictiion and nonfiction works, including' Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von B�low Case' and 'The Case for Israel. ' Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot - and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem. More than 50 percent of Jews will marry non-Jews, and their children will most often be raised as non-Jews. Which means, in the view of Dershowitz, that American Jews will vanish as a distinct cultural group sometime in the next century - unless they act now. Speaking to concerned Jews everywhere, Dershowitz calls for a new Jewish identity that focuses on the positive - the 3,500-year-old legacy of Jewish culture, values, and traditions. Dershowitz shows how this new Jewish identity can compete in America's open environment of opportunity and choice - and offers concrete proposals on how to instill it in the younger generation.
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- The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Dershowitz, Alan M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
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- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316181331
- ISBN 13
- 9780316181334
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 395
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