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Article: Jew vs. Jew: the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. (Book Reviews). (book review)
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Jew vs. Jew: the Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, by Samuel G. Freedman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 397 pp. $26.00.
Although in most other lands acceptance of Jews lasted for relatively short periods, throughout American history Jews have had a home in this country. Only between the ends of World Wars I and II (approximately 1919-1945) did Jews seriously worry about the pervasiveness of American antisemitism. Some Jews even feared that what was happening in Hitler's Germany could also occur in the United States. At the end of the Second World War, however, American attitudes began to change, and in 1955 historian Oscar Handlin wrote that the ...