Chutzpah

A Bold Call for a New Attitude by and toward American Jews Prominent law professor, famous appellate lawyer, columnist and commentator, the nation's leading defender of individual rights, electrifying public speaker, best selling author of The Best Defense and Reversal of Fortune- Alan MDershowitz wears many hats. He is also recognized as having one of the nation's most brilliant legal minds-and free-speaking tongues. In Chutzpah, Dershowitz brings together a lifetime of thought and action to provide a fascinating and provocative reflection on his generation of Jews in America about the changes they've witnessed, the changes they've created, and the changes that must still take place. Chutzpah, says Dershowitz, is "boldness,assertiveness, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows." Assessing his life experiences specific cases, and historic causes, he brings to bear all the chutzpah for which he is famous in examining anew such crucial issues as anti-Semitism (which he calls Judeopathy), assimilation, the Holocaust, Zionism, the civil rights movement, the polarization of the American right and left, the place of Jews in the Soviet Union, the changing state of affairs in Eastern.