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The eminent American Reform rabbi and scholar Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago, writing an authoritative 1907 encyclopedia article on "Judaism and the Jews in the United States," dismissed the subject of American Jewish politics in a mere nineteen words. "Politically," he wrote "the Jews are divided. There is no solid Jewish vote. Most of the Jews have no political aspirations. " 1 Hirsch's characterization reflects a widespread taboo concerning the subject of American Jewish politics that continues to the present day. In scholarly circles, the changing political behavior of American Jews has for the most part been ignored. Howard M. Sachar's A History of the Jews in America, weighing in at more than 1000 pages, contains no index entry under politics at all! For all that American Jewish scholars passionately debate US politics, only rarely do they dispassionately study it.David G. Dalin stands out as a notable exception to this rule. In a career spanning more than forty years, he has devoted much of his scholarship to American Jewish political history and the role that Jews played in American public life. His authored and coauthored books include such titles as The Presidents of the Unite

Author

Jonathan D. Sarna

Publisher

Academic Studies Press

Published

2022

Language

EN