Volume 24, Number 18 · November 10, 1977
You Can't Go Home Again
By Bernard Avishai
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic
by Hillel Halkin
Jewish Publication Society of America, 246 pp., $7.50
American Jews will be disturbed by Hillel Halkin's articulate and nervous 'letters' from Israel. A former American himself, Halkin prophesies that 'Jewish life in the [American] diaspora is doomed.' He believes that 'such life has a possible future only in an autonomous or politically sovereign Jewish community living in its own land, that is, in the state of Israel.'
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