About the Author

Steven M. Lowenstein is the Isadore Levine professor of Jewish history at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of Two Sources of Jewish Tradition: The Official Religion and the Popular Religion. He has also written numerous articles on the social and cultural history of Germany Jewry for scholarly journals.

Reviews

A solidly-researched, well-conceived, and original study that contributes richly to the literature of American Jewish life in the twentieth century.--Jack Wertheimer "The Jewish Theological Seminary of America"

Lowenstein has deftly and compassionately written an excellent cultural history of the community in which he grew up.-- "Choice"