The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology

by Arnold M. Eisen

Eisen analyzes the attempts of American Jewish thinkers to adapt the notion of closeness to the context of the new country. He traces the reinterpretations of "second-generation" American Jews and examines the "third generation" (1955 to the present).

237 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1983

Reviews

[Carl]

This is an interesting historical and cultural overview of how the religious views of Jewish European immigrants evolved over only 3 to 4 generations into today's mixture of "what is Jewish".