How Jews reinvented themselves — and America
Steven Windmueller, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Studies
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On the occasion of America’s 250th anniversary, this essay explores the ways that Jews established over time a distinctive American Judaism and in the process reinvented this society as well.