A PARTISAN GUIDE TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM

Indianapolis, New York; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. Hardcover. Original Cloth in jacket. 8vo. 308 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Includes laid in promotional multi-page letter, advertising the volume, addressed to Geoffrey Parsons of the New York Herald Tribune, from Marika Hellstrom of Publicity Associates. Book addresses Jewish occupations and livelihood, Jewish slef-acceptance, tradition, Zionism and Palestine, and anti-semitism. In four parts: Problems of Status, Problems of Sel-Acceptance, Problems of the Traiditon, Problems of the Homeland. "This is distinctly one of the better books on the Jewish Problem and its twin, the Gentile Problem. Rabbi Steinberg believes that what the Jews need is not more but less assimilation, and that only a revival of Judaism can insure their survival. " - Review in Foreign Affairs, July 1946 issue. Milton Steinberg (1903-1950) was an American author, philosopher, rabbi, teacher, and theologian; he was Rabbi at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan for many years, and worked with Hadassah, the American Jewish Congress, and the Rabbinical Assembly-Committee on Social Justice, B'Nai B'rith's Hillel Commission, Jewish Publication Society's Publication Committee, the Board of Jewish Education, Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, and served as editor of The Reconstructionist. He taught classes at the Jewish Theological Seminary's Teachers Institute, and at the 92nd Street YMHA. Subjects: Antisemitism. Jews - Psychology. Judaism - 20th century. Zionism. Jews. Jewish question. Light wear to jacket, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. Beautiful copy (ZION-5-26).