The Jews and the Left

Why did Jews become devoted Democrats, and why did the Democrats turn on them?

For the past 100 years, Jews have famously been at the forefront of every liberal cause in America. They were overrepresented in the Civil Rights Movement, in the Labor movement, the pro-choice movement, and the LGBT movement. If you ask them why they are Democrats, many will say it’s because they are Jews.

And yet, as Batya Ungar-Sargon explains in The Jews and the Left, with its slogans about the destruction of I...