"One of the great scholars of Judaism of our day, Shaul Magid, presents one of the most despicable characters to emerge in postwar Jewish life. Arising in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Meir Kahane fostered a racist ideology that has influenced and poisoned Jewish politics in the United States and Israel to this day. Magid's analysis is deeply disturbing and extremely important." --Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College "Meir Kahane remains one of the most fascinating, if disturbing, American Jewish figures of the late twentieth century. Shaul Magid does a remarkable job of explaining not just the man and his thought but the ways in which his ugly legacy haunts us still." --Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism "A deeply researched, elegantly written account of an individual who exemplified the stresses of late twentieth-century American Jewish life. No history of the Jews of the United States from the late 1960s onward can be complete without contemplating Kahane, and Magid's book will provide an indispensable guide to those turbulent years." --Hasia R.

Diner, author of Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America "Meir Kahane has long been dismissed as an outlier in American Jewish history, but as Shaul Magid demonstrates in this excellent book, he is an indicator of core trends and tensions that plague modern Jewish life. Magid is the ablest interpreter there is of the intense emotions and hypocrisies that drove Kahane and the movement he sought to create." --Lila Corwin Berman, author of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex.