STRANGER AT HOME: "THE HOLOCAUST," ZIONISM, AND AMERICAN JUDAISM

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Ix, 213 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism - United States - history -- 20th century; Jews - United States - identity; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - influence; Zionism - United States - history; Jews - United States - attitudes toward Israel. CONTENTS: Prologue; The problematic of Judaism in America: identity, self-hatred, and the crisis of community; Response to freedom I: the place of "the Holocaust" in American Judaism; Response to freedom II: the place of Zionism in American Judaism; Toward a theory of Zionism for American Judaism; Summing up: Zionism, "the Jewish problem, " and Judaism. ISBN: 0226576280. Neusner (b. 1932) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was ordained rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He served on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) , Dartmouth College, and Brown University. He was also active in several professional organizations and learned societies; in 1968-69 he served as president of the American Academy of Religion. (Goodblatt, EJ) Has dust jacket. Ex library, otherwise good condition. (AMR-34-25).