The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zi
"Chaim Waxman, the pre-eminent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is one of the keenest observers of American Jewry. Having written on various aspects of this subject over the past forty years, he
One began as a poet in Odessa and became an activist. Others began in obscure Algerian groups stung by French anti-Semitism while others started as Christians and stayed Christian for the duration. Wi
