Don’t miss this opportunity, especially in light of the current political
upheaval in Israel and its impact on U.S.-Israel relations.
The New Yorker wrote that Alterman “provides a scrupulous history of the crucial debates over Zionism, anti-Zionism,
Palestine, the role of memory and the Holocaust, and America’s interactions
with Israel. Alterman’s aim is not to flatter readers, no matter their
ideological camp, but, rather, to scrutinize mythologies and fairy tales in
order to make greater sense of why Israeli and American Jews, particularly in
non-Orthodox communities, appear to be drifting farther apart.
