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[email protected]. NUMBER 51 • CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES OF VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY • WINTER 2001 For the Enrichment of Jewish Thought But what liftshis volume from the inevitable ethos that permeated and inspired this mi Celebrating Nathan constrictions of its era is an awareness of the nority group could not in any logically satis Glazer's American Judaism unacknowledged tensions, the unaddressed factory way be reconciled with Judaism. problems that were also integral to the com The difference could not be split. munal condition. One dilemma could be In suggesting the depth of the ideologi by Stephen Whitfield said to dwarf-and perhaps even to deter cal problem Jews would have to face, Mr. mine-all the others. He stated it in 1957 Glazer was not writing as a theologian, and The achievement of Nathan Glazer with lapidary power: "There comes a time not quite as a prophet, but as an historian looms large when his American Judaism is and it is just about upon us-when Ameri though he was not formally trained as one.