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Article: After a minority struggles to fit in.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This one of those marvelous books that not only illuminates an important chain of historical events, but provides timeless - and especially timely - lessons for our own age. Michael Goldfarb, whose work will be familiar to those who listen to public radio, writes that the subject encapsulated in his book's subtitle had been at the back of his mind for some time.
He was pondering not merely the achievement let loose by the emancipation of European Jewry but also what if any price it had paid. Then the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, sent him as a reporter into Europe's Muslim communities, which were ...