Dershowitz, Alan M

Chutzpah / Alan M Dershowitz; Mazal Holocaust Collection. - Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 1991. - 378 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm. - 34(73)(092)Al.Dershowitz:323.1(73)(=924) .

With hard-and supercover

Notes: pp. 355-366; index: pp. 263-378

Cont.: 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.

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.

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Dershowitz, Alan M. 1938 -


Jews--United States--Biography
Lawyers--United States--Biography

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