| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Eric L. Goldstein. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 292. $29.95.

This is a field well-trodden in recent years, but Eric L. Goldstein adds both earnest research and close interpretation to the inherently limitless question of Jewish-American "identity." Matthew Frye Jacobson and Michael Staub, together with a lengthy list of essayists, have teased out the complications of Jewishness and whiteness from the 1890s to the crisis moments of the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s. Their conclusion, to be brief, has been that "White" identification brought such great rewards that it could not logically be resisted. Upward mobility edged a large portion of the Jewish American population in a rightward direction (especially important intellectuals setting the neoconservative pace), but never without contention and disappointment. A considerably larger section of Jewish Americans simply refused to go along.

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