Glenn C. Altschuler
By Glenn C. Altschuler
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Culture How The Jewish Left Evolved On Zionism
The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left From Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky By Susie Linfield Yale University Press, 400 pages, $32.50 In 1981, in an essay titled “Revolutionary Realism and the Struggle for Palestine,” Fred Halliday, a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review, broke with his comrades. A scholar of…
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Culture How Judaism Can Survive Amid A Gazillion Contradictions
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today By Jack Wertheimer Princeton University Press, 400 pages, $29.95 In “The New American Judaism,” Jack Wertheimer, a professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the author of “A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America,” draws on interviews with 200 rabbis, survey…
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Culture For Israelis and Palestinians, A Solution Is Nowhere In Sight
Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo By Seth Anziska Princeton University Press, 464 pages, $35 Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War By Micah Goodman Yale University Press, 264 pages, $26 For many Israelis and diasporic Jews, the acquisition of the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights,…
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Culture How Jewish Rights Became Human Rights
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century By James Loeffler Yale University Press, 384 pages, $32.50 Following Winston Churchill’s prediction in 1942 that the war against fascism would “end with the enthronement of human rights,” the phrase, which had rarely been used in the discourse of international law, began to gain currency….
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Culture Why The Census Should Matter To Jews — And Everyone Else
Inventing the Immigration Problem: the Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy By Katherine Benton-Cohen Harvard University Press. 343 pp. $29.95 America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census. By Joel Perlmann Harvard University Press. 451 pp. $45 In 1943, Earl Harrison, the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, announced his bureau would remove the designation…
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Culture Living the American Ethos
Commissioned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish Archives and the 10th anniversary of Gary Zola as the AJA’s current executive director, “New Essays in American Jewish History” is testimony to the variety — and vitality — of scholarship in Jewish Studies. Like Jacob Rader Marcus, the eminent historian who…
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Culture A Quiet Man to Explosive Effect
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the soviets the Atom Bomb By Allen M. Hornblum Yale University Press, 464 pages, $32.50 Assigned the code names “Goose” and “Arno,” Harry Gold, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev, served as a spy and courier for the Soviet Union from the mid-1930s until the end…
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Culture A Director’s Director
Kazan on Directing By Elia Kazan, edited by Robert Cornfield Alfred A. Knopf, 368 pages, $30.00 As Elia Kazan wrote in preparation for a book on his craft, a director should “avoid being a nice guy, a decent guy, a conforming guy.” He should show no shame when accused of being arrogant, and he should…
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