Jew vs. Jew
Subtitle: the struggle for the soul of American Jewry
By: Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780684859446
Subjects: Judaism; Jews; Nontraditional Jews; Joden; Relations; Social conditions; Ethnic relations; Orthodox Judaism; Identity
Other titles: Jew versus Jew
Description: "Jew vs. Jew tells the story of how American Jewry has increasingly - and perhaps terminally - broken apart in the last forty years.".

"Jew vs. Jew introduces readers to memorable places and characters. Freedman describes one of the final summers at a Labor Zionist camp in the Catskills whose brand of secular Jewishness is becoming obsolete because Zionism succeeded in creating Israel. He tells the story of Orthodox and Reform Jews in a Cleveland suburb who are fighting about the construction of several synagogues - and, on a deeper level, about whether unity or pluralism ought to be the goal of Jewish life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-371) and index.