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104 BOOK NOTES Reference works in all fields are listed under "Reference." American Jewish Life SHOFAR Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for an American Identity, 1880-1914, by Andrew R. Heinze. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 320 pp. $27.00. ISBN 0-231-06852-2. Links the development of American identity among East European Jewish immigrants to their participation in consumer culture. Divided We Fall: A History of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Prejudice in America, by Philip Perlmutter. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. 400 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8138-0644-5. Divided We Fall examines bigotry in America from the beginning of the country to the present, considering groups such as Native Americans, Blacks, Scotch-Irish, ~tholics, Huguenots, Mormons, Jews, Japanese, and Chinese. It analyzes the subject from historical, sociological, psychological , and economic perspectives and shows that bigotry today is pushing minorities toward establishing group identities and working for group minority rights, creating factions that ignore the larger American ideals of individualism and egalitarianism. Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with ProtestantAmerica, by Egal Feldman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990. 368 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-25201726 -9. America's traditional "melting pot" extends to its Judeo-Christian religious ethos. Dual Destinies traces how the relationship between Protestants and Jews has evolved from colonial days to the present. The amalgamation process hasn't always been smooth, and Feldman takes a look at the meeting points and friction points for both religious groups. The Jews of Houston: An Ethnographic Study, by Elaine H. Maas. New York: AMS Press, 1990. n.p.l. $52.50. ISBN 0-404-19476-l. This study is a descriptive ethnographic survey of the Jews of Houston. Although numerous studies of Jewish populations of large American cities have been published, no study has been made previously of Houston, the sixth largest city in the nation. Dr. Maas focuses on the Volume 9. No.2 Winter 1991 105 Jews of Houston "as a whole" in order to provide a general view of their life rather than an intensive study of a portion of it. She has also tried to compare, insofar as possible, the Jews of Houston with Jews in other American cities. The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street, by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich and Barry 1. Rehfeld. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989. 444 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-316-22285-2. Wall Street today, the source and center of American business, is also the subject of America's endless fascination. The New Crowd chronicles, for the first time, the rise to wealth, power, and prominence of the new and dominant generation on Wall Street: the young, self-made Jewish entrepreneurs of postwar America. Featured on the front pages of the major U.S. newspapers and magazines, the men who constitute this "New Crowd"-traders, dealmakers, investment bankers, high-risk venturers, corporate raiders-have all achieved brilliant success through vision, daring, and driving ambition. In this detailed social history, The New Crowd examines the interlocking professional and personal lives of these newest superstars, focusing on three outstanding leaders and their firms: Felix Rohatyn and Lazard Freres; Sandy Weill and Shearson; and John Gutfreund and Salomon Brothers. The authors of The New Crowd trace the careers of these three men through boardroom intrigues and megadeals, revealing the oftentimes extraordinary private lives behind the public facades, and interweaving the stories of other famous-and infamous-characters. The New Crowd is the saga of enterprising Jewish men from ordinary circumstances who-without immediate access to the Wall Street Establishment or major corporations-benefited from the new economic and social opportunities after World War II and in the course of four decades outdistanced the previous generations of Wasp and German-Jewish gentleman bankers. The N1lI1uring Neighb011100d: The Brownsville Boys Club and Jewish Community in Urban America. 1940-1990, by Gerald Sorin. New York: New York University Press, 1990. 255 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-8147-7897-6. This is a social history of the Brownsville Boys Club, a group established in 1940 by second-generation Jews who grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn near the end of the...

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