Mordecai: An Early American Family (review)

Shofar ♦ An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies success not only by scholars in Jewish Studies, but also by lay readers of many stripes. Members of my havurah have praised Sarna for his judicious interpretive approach, for his resistance to oversimplification, and for his presentation of history in such a way as to stimulate thinking about current issues in Jewish life. Ultimately, the havurah paid Sarna’s text its ultimate compliment: in some twenty-five years of book discussions, American Judaism is the first volume for which all members of the group have expressed admiration. Lee Shai Weissbach Department of History University of Louisville