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This volume contains a selection of sixteen of my essays, on the theme of Jews and American public life, published during the past forty years. In the essays in this volume, I sought to analyze and document how American Jews have participated in, and thought about, politics and public life.While a great deal has been written about the history of the American Jewish experience generally, little has been written on the subject of Jews and American politics and public life. This is especially true about the subject of Jews and the American presidency, a subject that I have been writing about for more than twenty years. In our book The Presidents of the United States and the Jews, Alfred J. Kolatch and I examined the role and experience of Jews in each presidential administration from George Washington to Bill Clinton, and discussed the relationship of each of the presidents to the American Jewish community at large and to individual American Jews.The history of Jewish-presidential relations and of Jewish involvement in American public life generally begins in the early republic, with the presidency of George Washington, who was the first president to visit and speak at a synagogue in

Publisher

Academic Studies Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

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