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Article Excerpt
White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. By Joshua M. Zeitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 278 pp.
The book makes three contributions to the field of the study of postwar politics in America. First, it aims to show the enduring importance of ethnicity, religion, and national origins. Second, the author argues that white ethnic subcultures varied in their political ideologies, and these subcultures provided for the descendants of European immigrants a distinct prism through which they viewed issues of race and class. Third, the author argues that the dissolution of the New Deal coalition between African Americans and American Jews began in the 1940s as American Jews and Catholics developed divergent political subcultures based on religious theologies and ideologies. The dissolution, in other words, first emerged as a division between Catholics and Jews in the 1940s.
The author begins his argument by examining the persistence of ethnicity in...
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