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muffmacguff's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this book! I appreciated that rather than getting into the weeds on statistics or historical trends, the author just worked to tell illustrative stories with thoughtful details. A super engaging read.
I read in a review in I think the New York Times frustration that the author presents these stories without offering his own perspective on them. The epilogue is full of the author’s subjective vision of the future of American Jewry and I find his thoughts so superficial I’m just grateful it didn’t really permeate the rest of the book.
The book was published almost 20 years ago, but the trends it explores of deep fissures within the American (and occasionally Israeli) Jewish community are a nice reminder that the nastiness That has marked a lot of recent internal Jewish drama are, like, nothing new. Recommended to anyone interested in recent Jewish history! You can skip the epilogue.
I read in a review in I think the New York Times frustration that the author presents these stories without offering his own perspective on them. The epilogue is full of the author’s subjective vision of the future of American Jewry and I find his thoughts so superficial I’m just grateful it didn’t really permeate the rest of the book.
The book was published almost 20 years ago, but the trends it explores of deep fissures within the American (and occasionally Israeli) Jewish community are a nice reminder that the nastiness That has marked a lot of recent internal Jewish drama are, like, nothing new. Recommended to anyone interested in recent Jewish history! You can skip the epilogue.
jordynhaime's review against another edition
4.0
Fantastic writing; I've been using this as a guidebook for a story I'm working on. Would have gotten 5 stars but I felt some chapters were just a little bit too long, and I felt Israel-Palestine-related issues could have been dealt with better, particularly the author's choice of simply referring to "the Arabs."
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