Michael E. Staub is Professor of English and American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America (2002) and Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (1994).
"Staub's book reprints seventy-three brief essays that range across
the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam peace movement, the campaign
for Soviet Jewish rights, the feminist explosion in Jewish life,
the sexual revolution and more. . . Consistently, we see how the
well-entrenched liberalism of the Jewish community of that time. .
. empowered its young activists to follow the path of conscience
without fear."--The Reconstructionist
"This collection of essays is worth reading again and again, and
worth reconsidering in the light of what has happened since their
publication, and what is currently happening in all the areas of
contemporary American Jewish life. I highly recommend this book for
all libraries with strong Judaica collections, as well as with
collections focusing on the social, political, and religious trends
of modern America."--Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter
"[Staub] captures the zeitgeist very well. Four decades have gone
by, and so it is instructive to look back and see what is left of
these revolutions, which ones improved the Jewish world, and which
ones we are still paying a price for."--South Florida Jewish
Journal
"Michael Staub, in his new reader The Jewish 1960s: An American
Sourcebook, seeks to remind us that the movements of American
culture and politics in the 1960s both contributed to and were in
many ways derived from the swirl and cry of the Jewish community.
Simultaneously, the community integrated even more tightly into the
broader social commons, and the dividing lines in the broader
community became fault lines that would eventually break apart
seemingly solid alliances among Jews."--socialaction.com
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