Sway Machinery by Ben Brofman

picture by Avital Aronowitz

What a Wonderful Place
by Eyal Halfon
104 min, 2005

Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 by Anna Shternshis.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 252 pp. $24.95

By Rachel Levy

Group: Ta-Shma
Album: Come Listen
Label: JMG

by Rebecca Bebe Leicht
Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West
by Harriet and Fred Rochlin
Houghton Mifflin, $30.00

American Jews have been exploring different modes of interaction with their gentile neighbors since the establishment of the Republic. Historians and philosophers, scholars and critics have pontificated on the meaning of American Judaism practically since the moment the first Jews landed in New Amsterdam, more than 350 years ago.