Creating Jewish identity.(Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel & America) (book review)

Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel & America, ed. Deborah Dash Moore, S. Ilan Troen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 358 pp.

Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel & America is a collection of essays about ways of creating Jewish identity and Jewish culture in the two great centers of Jewish life that developed in--and survived--the 20th century. The 15 essays grew out of a series of ongoing seminars and conferences at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Israeli (mostly male) and American (mostly female) scholars crossed cultural,