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Article: Nine American Jewish Thinkers. (American Jewry's "Greatest Generation"). (book review)
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- November 1, 2001
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Nine American Jewish Thinkers, by Milton R. Konvitz. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 2000, 173 pp. with bibliography.
Those who fought in World War II may well have been, as Tom Brokaw calls them, America's "Greatest Generation," But as I read Milton R. Konvitz's Nine American Jewish Thinkers, I had the feeling that American Jewry's "Greatest" was this -- partly earlier -- generation. Of the three philosophers -- Horace M. Kallen, Morris Raphael Cohen, and Sidney Hook -- discussed in the book, only Hook was born in the 20th century, in 1902. All three jurists -- Brandeis, Cardozo, and Frankfurter -- were born considerably ...
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