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Article: Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948.
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- American Jewish History
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- December 1, 1997
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Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish dilemma, 1898-1948. By Rafael Medoff, Westport, CT., Praeger, 1997. 200 pp. $55.00.
For at least 150 years, American Jews have fervently and incessantly proclaimed the unity of Jewish and American values. It might even be said that what remains most distinctive about the American Jewish community is its undiminished faith in this dubious claim. Yet how could American Jews better protect themselves, as a tiny minority in an alien Christian culture, than by asserting the unity of Judaism with Americanism and by molding Judaism to American standards?
At Sinai, declared Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, Moses promulgated the ...