Chutzpah

by Alan M. Dershowitz

Book, 1991

Barcode

123457121

Call number

B DIA DER

Tags

Biography

Genres

Collections

Community & Culture, Biography

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1991.

Description

The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., and changes in Eastern Europe.

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LibraryThing member gmicksmith
This is a biography but also a lifetime of thought and action about being Jewish in America. He examines all the crucial issues: anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, eastern Europe, and the turmoil in the Middle East. He is an Orthodox Jew, attended Yale Law school,
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 and faced discrimination at Wall Street law firms.
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Subjects

Dershowitz, Alan M
United States Ethnic Relations

Awards

New York Times bestseller

ISBN

0316181374 / 9780316181372

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