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Are We One?: Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel Author: Jerold S. Auerbach $11.00 |
Are We One?: Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel |
Editorial Review:
What binds together Jews of Israel and the USA? Amid the hope and frustration generated by the Middle East peace process, the meaning of Jewish statehood is more contested than ever before. This work presents a new interpretation of this contemporary Jewish dilemma. The modern Jewish impulse to embrace Western values exacts a terrible price, the author argues. He offers a critical reassessment of Zionism, an analysis of the sources of identification of American Jews with Israel - and a gloomy prognosis of the future of Jewish life, both in Israel and in the USA.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
Last best hope for the Jewish state:
"That a Jew feels pain upon recognizing Israel's weakness and decay," Yoram Hazony says, "is a sign of a still-living national consciousness, the essential achievement of Zionism." By this standard, Jerold S. Auerbach's "Are We One?" is an irreplaceable contribution to the literature of Zionism. One-part history and one-part polemic by a distinguished academic historian, Auerbach's book explores the problem of identity in a post-Zionist age. Israelis have become little different from American Jews in their...
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