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Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. By Marianne R. Sanua. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2007. xvi + 495 PP.
Let Us Prove Strong was commissioned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) to mark its centennial. Founded in 1906 in response to a series of pogroms and riots in Russia, the AJC soon became the voice of the American Jewish establishment on public issues and an important defender of the rights of Jews. It is certainly the world's foremost secular Jewish organization. Three and a half decades have elapsed since the publication of the last major history of the AJC, Naomi W. Cohen's Not Free to Desist: The American Jewish Committee, 1906-1966 (1972), and now Let Us Prove Strong has brought its story up to the present. The AJC made a wise choice in selecting Marianne Sanua, an historian at Florida Atlantic University, to undertake the project. She...
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