Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing.
Steven M. Lowenstein is the Isadore Levine professor of Jewish history at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of Two Sources of Jewish Tradition: The Official Religion and the Popular Religion. He has also written numerous articles on the social and cultural history of Germany Jewry for scholarly journals.
