Trouble With The Tribe: In his new book, Samuel Freedman chronicles internecine battles among American Jewry.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: September 8, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Trouble With The Tribe: In his new book, Samuel Freedman chronicles internecine battles among American Jewry.

SANDEE BRAWARSKY

JEWISH WEEK BOOK CRITIC

`Good vs. evil is boring," Samuel G. Freedman likes to tell his students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. "The real drama is in competing visions of good."

His new book, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (Simon & Schuster) is indeed full of drama as he tells six true tales -- that read like fine novellas -- of combustible conflict among Jews, from 1960 to the present. Set in communities across ...

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