American Judaism: response to modernity.(Book Review)

Most Jews will love this book. * Most non-Jews will be informed by it. And even the cognoscenti will recognize Jonathan Sarna's significant achievement in tracing, narrating, and explaining the vicissitudes of American Judaism from the 17th through the 21st centuries. Sarna has produced more than just a history of American Judaism. He places the changes that evolved in the context of American Jewish history and the developments among contemporary Christians. His argument, that there are, and have been, many forms of American Judaism, with a multiplicity of variations even within t