M. M. Silver is professor of Jewish history at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and at the University of Haifa in Israel. He has published books in Hebrew and English that include Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story and Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography.

Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today