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The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State. By Benjamin Ginsberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933. x, 286 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-226-23665-2.)
In 1985, Charles E. Silberman concluded in his highly optimistic view of American Jewish life and the American Jewish future titled A Certain People that American Jews were "secure" and that their haven for over three centuries had also become a "home." Within the past year two books that traced the rise and fall of American anti-Semitism have concluded that the American variant of Jew hatred, although reaching frightening levels at certain points in its history, has been on an unstoppable decline for the past several decades and will continue to do so for the foreseeable...