This book describes the social and cultural challenges posed by the Holocaust from the subjective angle of those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the universalistic American Jewish Reform belief in integration even in view of the disheartening realities of the 1930s and the 1940s.

Ofer Shiff is the head of the Ben Gurion Research Institute in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published extensively on issues related to the challenge posed by antisemitism and the Holocaust as seen by various Jewish group in Israel and the United States.