American Jewish History: America, American Jews, and the Holocaust.(Review)

American Jewish History: America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock. Vol. 7. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. xv + 486 PP. Notes and index. $110.00.

The writing of Jewish history in America, once an enterprise belonging in the domain of Jewish amateur historians more interested in apologetics than in data, has come fully into its own only in the past forty-five years. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Series Editor, in his useful introduction underscores the dramatic shift to professional, academically trained historians whose methodology and training enable them to study, analyze and conceptualize the confluences and divergences of Jewish and …