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The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
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The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Hardcover - 1997

by Dershowitz, Alan M

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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Bibliographic References, Index. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Very mild rubbing to white dust-jacket, else a clean, sqiuare, unread copy. An as new copy in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Boards. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
  • Author Dershowitz, Alan M
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown & Co, Boston
  • Date 1997
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 006902
  • ISBN 9780316181334 / 0316181331
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.22 x 1.23 in (23.77 x 15.80 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Ethnic relations, Judaism - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-49292
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.892

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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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  • Booklist, 01/01/1997, Page 777
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/1997, Page 268
  • Library Journal, 03/01/1997, Page 91
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/1996, Page 44
  • New York Times, 03/30/1997, Page 7
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/03/1997, Page 88

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