Saving Remnants: Feeling Jewish in America - Softcover

Bershtel, Sara; Graubard, Allen

9780520085121: Saving Remnants: Feeling Jewish in America

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520085124 ISBN 13: 9780520085121

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

This provocative book argues that in America today, being Jewish is just another way of being American. Based on hundreds of interviews with American Jews of the postwar generation ranging from the least involved to the most fervent, Saving Remnants offers a new vision of what ethnicity has come to mean and an original exploration of the force traditional group loyalties can have in a culture where individual choice and personal fulfillment are central values.

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"Saving Remnants provides a series of honest and clear-minded portraits of young American Jews trying to confront what it means to be Jewish."—Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers

"You don't have to be Jewish to be fascinated and challenged by this sensitive, profoundly intelligent book. Saving Remnants is about Jewishness, but it is also about all of us, searching for 'identity' on a menu that includes New Age epiphanies along with old-time religions and instant 'traditions.'"—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Fear of Falling

From the Back Cover:

"Saving Remnants provides a series of honest and clear-minded portraits of young American Jews trying to confront what it means to be Jewish." (Irving Howe, author of World of Our Fathers)

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