Torn at the Roots : : The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America / / Michael Staub.
When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over...
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