Books
October, 1988
Ze'ev Chafets may have set out on a journey to find a Jewish America, his personal confirmation of a society existing beyond the urban crawl of his youth and the stereotyped neighborhoods of a Woody Allen film; but if Members of the Tribe (Bantam), a chronicle of his cross-country schlep, accomplishes anything, it shows an amazing, almost cosmic connection among people who have absolutely nothing in common but their Jewishness. Along the way, Chafets shmooses with Louisiana's bayou Jews, noshes...