Why Are Jews Liberals?

From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant and provocative examination of a central question in American politics and culture that is sure to generate tremendous controversy.

Norman Podhoretz says he has never in his entire life been asked any question on any subject as often as ?Why are so many Jews liberals??-or in its more specifically political form, ?Why do most Jews always vote for the Democrats?? Podhoretz proposes to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show why, for most of that time, Jews quite sensibly concluded that they had much more to fear from the right than the left. But since the Six Day War of 1967, he argues, this position has no longer made sense, and yet most Jews go on supporting the Democratic Party and the liberal agenda. Reviewing the history of Jewish political attitudes and thoroughly examining the available evidence, he then demonstrates that all the usual explanations-such as a passion for justice allegedly deriving from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible-are either inadequate or flat-out false. Finally he proposes his own answer to the great puzzle of why most Jews remain as committed to liberalism as ever.

There is no more vigorous thinker or skilled polemicist in American intellectual life than Norman Podhoretz. In Why Are Jews Liberals? he sums up his thinking on the political inclinations of his fellow Jews-in the process confounding conventional wisdom and changing the way we view American politics. more

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-2009; Much Ado About Very Little; Norman Podhoretz's "Why Are Jews Liberals?" has its good points. Certainly, it's well and often wittily written. But what is the ultimate purpose of this book? One must assume that it's to answer the question posed in the title. If...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; A good thing Jews like to buy books; A good thing Jews like to buy books and will certainly buy this one. But they won't really learn anything they didn't know. Half of the book is a brisk history of Jewish-Gentile relations without the slightest hint of originality,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2009; a more basic premise; Although in this fine book Norman Podhoretz comes close, I would have to say that the core of fundamental differences lies one layer deeper. - Leftists are zealous adherents to a secular religion. While conservatives believe that only...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; What?; Let me be perfectly clear. Being Jewish has absolutely nothing to do with "Israel". Jews have lived and prospered for thousands of years in the diaspora, some Jewish thinkers have gone as far as to say the true definition of Judaism is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2009; a more basic premise; Although in this fine book Norman Podhoretz comes close, I would have to say that the core of fundamental differences lies one layer deeper. - Leftists are zealous adherents to a secular religion. While conservatives believe that only...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; What?; Let me be perfectly clear. Being Jewish has absolutely nothing to do with "Israel". Jews have lived and prospered for thousands of years in the diaspora, some Jewish thinkers have gone as far as to say the true definition of Judaism is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-22-2009; Much Ado About Very Little; Norman Podhoretz's "Why Are Jews Liberals?" has its good points. Certainly, it's well and often wittily written. But what is the ultimate purpose of this book? One must assume that it's to answer the question posed in the title. If...; read full review | report as inappropriate