A lively, thoughtful history of America's Jews, exploring their
complex relationships with national culture, identity, and
politics-and each other. You can be called a Bad Jew-by the
community or even yourself-if you don't keep kosher, don't send
your children to Hebrew school, or enjoy Christmas music; if your
partner isn't Jewish, or you don't call your mother enough. But
today, amid fears of rising antisemitism, what makes a Good or Bad
Jew is a particularly fraught question. There is no answer, argues
Emily Tamkin. Several million now identify as American Jews; but
they don't all identify with one another. American Jewish history,
like all Jewish history, has been about transformation-and full of
discussions, debates and hand-wringing over who is Jewish, how to
be Jewish, and what it means to be Jewish. Bad Jews is a rich,
absorbing reflection on 100 years of American Jewish identities and
arguments. Tamkin's fascinating, diverse interviews explore the
complex story of American Jewishness, and its evolving, conflicting
positions, from assimilation, race, and social justice; to
politics, Zionism, and Israel. She pinpoints the one truth about
Jewish identity: It's always changing.
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