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work_jtk4ukfpdvepvpfs2mokxbcxsm	Lee Shai Weissbach	American Judaism: A History (review)	2006	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1887	107	56	In American Judaism, Brandeis University scholar Jonathan Sarna has produced a marvelous survey that masterfully recounts the history of Jewish religious life in America and in the process provides much insight into other by the National Jewish Book Awards, which named American Judaism 2004's Sarna's decision to concentrate on religion in exploring the Jewish experience in the United States differentiates his text from similar surveys and gives rabbis and other religious leaders in American Jewish life. So too, Sarna frequently compares developments in American Judaism to developments in other faiths. Despite Sarna's focus on the Jewish religion, he takes many opportunities to connect religious matters to other aspects of American Jewish history Sarna has taken an essentially objective approach in exploring the history of American Judaism, and this becomes most evident when he considers twenty-five years of book discussions, American Judaism is the first volume for 	./cache/work_jtk4ukfpdvepvpfs2mokxbcxsm.pdf	./txt/work_jtk4ukfpdvepvpfs2mokxbcxsm.txt