America was the first widespread attempt at Jewish denationalization. This attempt has failed. The Jewish nation-religion in America went through a concurrent process of denationalization, reducing itself to the Jewish religion, and massive secularization, eroding its religious connector. By the late 20th century, most American Jews connected to their Judaism through temporary replacement glues: the memory of the Holocaust and nostalgia to the Eastern European past. By the third decade of the 21st century, these temporary connectors have all but faded, as the immigrant generation and Holocaust
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