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Through memoirs, oral histories, and letters, Deborah Dash Moore charts the lives of 15 young Jewish men as they faced military service and tried to make sense of its demands.

Jews --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Jewish soldiers --- Jews as soldiers --- Soldiers --- History --- Participation, Jewish. --- Influence. --- United States --- Ethnic relations.

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Judaism --- History.

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Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States. --- Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Jews -- United States -- History -- 21st century. --- Jews -- United States -- Identity. --- Judaism -- United States. --- Jews --- Judaism --- Identity politics --- History --- Identity --- Cultural assimilation --- Identity.

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Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty percent of the world's Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures.Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, leading Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering in particular the American Jewish challenge to diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.

Jews --- Israel and the diaspora. --- Jewish diaspora --- Identity. --- Attitudes toward Israel. --- Social life and customs. --- Attitudes toward Israel --- Israel --- Civilization. --- Identity --- Social life and customs