70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to America - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to America - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

To read about American Jews this summer, you only need to open the newspaper. For better or worse, and probably for worse, Jews have been all too much in the news of late.  Seventy years ago, the situation was quite different. With World War II moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed Amer­i­can reli­gion, reflected in a mid­dle­br…