| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew R. Heinze. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 438 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11755-1.)

Scholars interested in American ideas about human nature have usually focused on Protestant thinkers, from the Puritans to John Dewey to Norman Vincent Peale. Andrew R. Heinze's provocative study of Jews and psychology significantly broadens that view, arguing that Jews played a central role in shaping American ideas about the human psyche. Tracing the influence of theorists and popularizers alike, Heinze demonstrates that Jews not only contributed as individuals to America's psychological and spiritual self-understanding, but also as members of a religious and ethnic group well positioned by their own struggles to offer compelling insights on American identity.

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