Jonathan Kaufman
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BOOKS

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A Hole in the Heart of The World:  Being Jewish in Eastern Europe 
(Viking, 1997)

Reviewer Francine Prose wrote in Newsday: “Carefully researched… profoundly chilling.  Family histories so eventful they keep us reading with unflagging interest."
  • Finalist, National Jewish Book Award.
  • Featured on national and local television and radio shows. 
  • Spoke at colleges around the country.
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Broken Alliance:  The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America  
(Scribner’s, 1988; Reissued with a New Introduction, 1995)

Christopher Lehman-Haupt in The New York Times praised Broken Alliance as “Perceptive and even-handed… extraordinary perspective...  One is grateful for Mr. Kaufman’s graceful analysis.”
Juan Williams in The Washington Post wrote: “A first-rate job of recounting telling episodes that reveal the emotional dimensions of the great divide now separating blacks and Jews.”  
  • Winner, National Jewish Book Award and the Present Tense Award for Best Book on Contemporary Affairs 
  • Featured on national and local television shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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