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Barry Glassner is a professor of sociology and author or co-author of nine books, including The Culture of Fear, which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He says that many of Americans' concerns and fears are largely unfounded

Barry Glassner is a professor of sociology and author or co-author of nine books, including The Culture of Fear, which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He says that many of Americans' concerns and fears are largely unfounded. In it, Glassner decries: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous.

Barry Glassner, Hilary Taub L. .Published 2002 by USC Casden Institute. There's no description for this book yet.

Zuckerman and Schoenberg's fifth volume of The Jewish Role in American Life, a collection of essays from the .

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies.

Ten articles, most of which were based on papers delivered at the Association of Jewish Studies conference held in San Diego in 2006, provide the reader with a broad vista of topics, all related to how the major Jewish cataclysm of the twentieth century affected various areas of thought, action, education, media, economy, theology, sociology, and history in the United States. Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies.

This second volume of the Jewish Role in American Life continues the Casden Institute's ongoing examination of the contemporary American Jewish community and it.

Find nearly any book by Barry Glassner. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. ISBN 9780971740020 (978-717400-2-0) Softcover, Purdue University Press, 2008.

Nor are American Jews monolithic in their politics

Nor are American Jews monolithic in their politics. Although the Jewish community has become a reliable part of the Democratic Party’s base in most partisan elections, American Jews represent a wide range of ideologies on most economic and foreign policy matters. In addition to becoming leaders in business and labor, in academia and in philanthropy, Jewish Americans have always helped shape the discussion over the issues that form the country’s future.

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