Reviewed by Mary McCune | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.2

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Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945–2006. By Marianne R. Sanua. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2007. xvi + 495 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cloth).

This study, commissioned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), is a welcome addition to Naomi Cohen's earlier work covering the period from 1906 to 1966. Sanua focuses her attention on the late 1960s and the decades that followed. Although the book was commissioned, Sanua notes that she had unrestricted access to AJC records. The story she tells is triumphal and yet does not mask the numerous arguments and internal battles that members had over the years. These conflicts constitute the major themes of the book: tension between the group's particularist and universalist agendas, its changing relationship with Israel, interactions at home with Christians and African Americans, and debates regarding the nature of Jewish identity in the modern world.

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