Recent books on jewish identity

Assimilation and Its Discontents, by BARRY RUBIN. New York: Random House, 1995. xvi + 333 pp. $25.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8129-2293-X. Why Should Jews Survive? Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future, by MICHAEL GOLDBERG. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. ix + 191 pp. $23 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-509109-4. Finding a Home for the Soul, by CATHERINE HALL MYROWITZ. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson. 1995. xxix + 387 pp $27.50 (paper). ISBN 1-56821-322-0. Deutscher, Isaac. 1968.The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays. London: Oxford University Press. Giddens, Anthony. 1991.Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Halkin, Hillel. 1977.Letters to an American Jewish Friend. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. Steiner, George. 1971.In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press. —. 1994.No Passion Spent. London: Faber and Faber. Vital, David. 1990.The Future of the Jews. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.