From Europe to America: A History of American Jews with Commentary

From Europe to America is a sweeping reflection on the history and identity of American Jews. The book challenges most premises that American Jews have come to consider as cornerstones of being Jewish in America today. Written with a personal and impassioned voice, Janet Kerekes argues that the great exodus of Jews from Russia was less a flight from persecution than a realization that the prospect of emancipation was going to be indefinitely on hold. Russian Jews remained confined and exclu...