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Sacred and Secular
Avishai, Bernard | April 13, 1985 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Exodus and Revolution," by Michael Walzer. The book is most welcome precisely because the question of what makes for American Jewish interests cannot be settled with elbows alone. The secular Yiddish world of Jewish immigrants is gone, and the notion that it can be replaced by vicarious Zionism is going fast. American Jews who persist in the spirit of Eastern European Orthodoxy face no serious crisis, but the rest, indeed the majority, have no clear sense of Judaism's future. Walzer insists that his book is not intended as instruction for any particular religious group in America.

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EXODUS & Revolution (Book); WALZER, Michael; JEWS, American; IMMIGRANTS; RELIGIOUS groups; ZIONISM
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