Jack Ross is a freelance editor and independent historian in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in the American Conservative, Tikkun, the Mitrailleuse, Daily Caller, Mondoweiss, and Antiwar.com. He is the author of Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism (Potomac, 2011).
"An important book for anyone interested in understanding the
complex history of how American Jews have related to the State of
Israel. Jack Ross not only tells a fascinating story about the life
and times of Rabbi Elmer Berger, a deeply committed anti-Zionist,
but he also makes it clear that Zionism is not the religion of all
American Jews and certainly was not in the decades before Israel
was created."--John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Professor
of Political Science, University of Chicago, and coauthor of The
Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
"As Jews of conscience continue to speak out today against Israeli
atrocities in Palestine, Israel's claim to represent world Jewry
has lost all credibility. As this book will show you, there is not
and has never been consensus among Jews on the Zionist
project."--Anna Baltzer, author of Witness in Palestine
"This is a seminal book, nothing less than the rediscovery of
American Jewry's dissenting tradition. Ostensibly about the
fascinating and controversial Rabbi Elmer Berger, it is really much
more--a nuanced and readable portrait of people and ideas
undeservedly erased from American Jewish history."--Murray Polner,
former editor of Present Tense, author of Rabbi: The American
Experience, and coeditor of Shalom: The Jewish Peace Letter
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