A
society, then, is an environment needed to
sustain the common
element of form or defining characteristic
of the
society in successive generations
of actual occasions.
There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to
sustain in Jewish identity a religious
element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations
of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American
society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.