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Recommended readings for understanding American Jewry past and future:

  • Erica Brown and Misha Galperin, The Case for Jewish Peoplehood: Can We be One? (2009)
     

  • Elliot Cosgrove, For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today (2024)
     

  • Hasia Diner, A New Promised Land (2003)
     

  • Hasia Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (2004)
     

  • Daniel Gordis, Krovim Rechokim: Hakera bein Yehodei America ve'Israel (Near and Far: The Divide Between America's Jews and Israel) (2022)
     

  • Gidi Grinstein, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability, the Challenge & Opportunity Facing Israel (2013)
     

  • David Hazony, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (2023)
     

  • Avraham Infeld, A Passion for a People: Lessons from the Life of a Jewish Educator (2017)
     

  • Mordecai Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization (1934)
     

  • Joshua Leifer, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (2024)
     

  • Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (2022)
     

  • Robert Mnookin, The Jewish American Paradox (2018)
     

  • Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History (2004)
     

  • Mel Scult, The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1990)
     

  • Michael Steinhardt, Jewish Pride (2022)
     

  • Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life (2025)
     

  • Gary Phillip Zola and Marc Dollinger, American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader (2014)

Books on American Jewry

Tablets Shattered (Joshua Leifer)
A critique of American Jewish institutional life and the generational shift in political engagement.


Jewish Pride (Michael Steinhardt)
A manifesto for reviving Jewish identity and community strength in American society.

 
Judaism as a Civilization (Mordecai Kaplan)
A foundational work arguing for a cultural, evolving Jewish identity in America.

 
A Passion for a People (Avraham Infeld)
A personal guide to building Jewish peoplehood across ideological lines.

 
The Jewish American Paradox (Robert Mnookin)
A legal scholar’s argument for embracing inclusive, choice-based Jewish identity in the U.S.

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