| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. By Ellen M. Umansky. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 245 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-504400-2.)

During the early decades of the twentieth century, American Jewish leaders related to Christian Science as a menace. The new Christian movement attracted thousands of young Jews, who were enchanted by the group's ideas about the supremacy of the human spirit over the illusion of physical reality. In particular, they were captivated by the alternative medicine that the group promoted, according to which individuals were able, through prayer and the power of their own wills, to overcome illness and death. By the 1920s, Reform rabbis saw a need to create Jewish alternatives to Christian Science, and a number of them established societies that promoted some of the ideas of Christian Science coupled with Jewish identity.

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