US Jews in the 1980s were as safe & comfortable as a Jewish community had ever been – yet the shadow of the Holocaust still loomed large over their identities.
Professor Shaul Magid’s new book explores Rav Meir Kahane’s lifelong struggle against the Jewish embrace of bourgeois liberalism and his lasting socio-political impact on the US Jewish community.
The Soviet Jewry struggle attempted to make restitution for the US Jewish establishment’s fatal inaction during the Holocaust. But the SSSJ and JDL came to the fight with radically different methods.