The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
"One of the best features of this book is its usefulness to both scholars and the casual reader." -- American Reference Books Annual"The book is an interesting hybrid between an edited volume and an ecyclopedia...it is an effective one-volume overview that could serve as a text for a course on the American Jewish Community" - Jewish Book World"No one who reads this collection will view Judaism in America as simply a pale reflection of its European antecedents. The clear writing coupled with the introductory chapters on American Jewish history make The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism accessible to a broad audience. To be sure, experts in American Judaism will find this work to be more of a codification of significant scholarship over the past twenty years than a new development in the field. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of groundbreaking studies congregated in a single volume underscores the dramatic changes to our knowledge of American Judaism."   --American Jewish Archives Journal