Why Is America Different?

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Why Is America Different? is written by Steven T. Katz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761886192 (ISBN 10) and 9780761886198 (ISBN 13).

Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence? In 2004, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the American Jewish community, this question seemed well worth revisiting. To explore it more fully, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University brought together a distinguished group of expert scholars on the main areas of American Jewish life, stretching from the colonial Jewish experience to the image of Jews in contemporary films. The present volume represents the fruit of this collective reflection and interrogation.