Title: Chutzpah /
Authors: Dershowitz, Alan M.
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Dershowitz, Alan M.; Jews United States Biography.; Lawyers United States Biography; Jews United States Politics and government.; Jews Politics and government; Jews Identity.; Antisemitism United States; United States Ethnic relations.
Abstract: A provocative reflection on his generation of Jews in America: about the changes they have witnessed, the changes they have created, and the changes that must still take place.
Contents: A Polish Jew comes to America: Jewish century of American life -- Leaving Brooklyn: learning about anti-semitism in the real world -- Harvard: quotas, conflicts, and honors -- Going on television: pervasiveness of anti-Jewish attitudes -- Auschwitz: holocaust, justice, and faith -- Visiting synagogues around the world: exploring the different meanings of Jewishness -- Israel: an American Jewish civil libertarian goes to Israel -- In the Soviet Union: are we our brothers' and sisters' keepers? -- In Marion prison: Pollard case and the crisis in American Jewish leadership -- Jews in a "Christian America": separation of church and state.