LOOKING IN: Vouchers; Hope For Continuity

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: July 3, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

LOOKING IN: Vouchers; Hope For Continuity

SAMUEL HELLMAN

Today's American Jews who worry about the Jewish future see assimilation, the process in which Jews are absorbed by and become indistinguishable from the larger essentially Christian host culture and society, as a threat to Jewish continuity. It was not always thus.

Indeed, texts from the late Middle Ages, although scarce, bear witness to a time when the Christians were the ones worrying. In some quarters, Jews were succeeding in becoming integrated into medieval society. They had taken on names not unlike their gentile neighbors, ...

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