Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer non-media made of conflict

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an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust

from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street

insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification

her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight

Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer non-media made of conflictFrom esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifers lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled upon pillars of American Jewish self definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The