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In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work of the late eminent sociologist Werner J. Cahnman. The prominence of the American and European historians, philosophers, geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists in this volume represents evidence of the wide effect that Cahnman's work had on scholars in a number of fields in academic work. This volume will make timely and rewarding reading for social scientists and historians, especially those concerned with the religious factor.

Contributors: Joseph B. Maier, Chaim I. Waxman, Louis Dumont, Karl Bosl, K.M. Bolte, Edmund Leites, Lewis S. Feuer, Lester Singer, Harriet D. Lyons, Andrew P. Lyons, Alvin Boskoff, Nathan Glazer, Irving Louis Horowitz, Herbert A. Strauss, William Spinrad, Calvin Goldscheider, Saul B. Cohen, and Emmanuel Maier.

Chaim I. Waxman is associate professor of sociology, Rutgers University, and is author of numerous books and articles on ethnicity, including the forthcoming Community and Modernity: A Sociology of American Jewry.

Joseph B. Maier is professor emeritus of sociology, Rutgers University, and chairman of the interdisciplinary University Seminar on Contents and Methods of the Social Sciences at Columbia University. He has been Fulbright professor at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Professor Maier is the author of numerous books and articles.