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Kenneth L. Marcus is one of the most important new voices in civil rights policy to come along in many years. He combines the brilliance of a great lawyer, the flair of a compelling writer, and the tenacity of a policymaker who has spent many years battling in the trenches. Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America crackles with fresh insights, startling revelations, and broad learning. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand one of the most disturbing failures of civil rights enforcement today. - Abigail Thernstrom Vice-chair. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Adjunct scholar, American Enterprise Institute Kenneth Marcus brings a wealth of legal knowledge and a richness of professional experience to illuminate a problem of growing concern: the surfacing of anti-Jewish hostility on a number of American university campuses and the general failure of university administrators to act effectively to shield vulnerable students from harassment, intimidation, fear, and injury. For anyone interested in seeing persuasive arguments for the full application of civil rights protections on our nation's campuses, this well-informed, clarifying book is a must-read. - Alvin H. Rosenfeld Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism; Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University In Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America, Professor Marcus brilliantly wrestles with two interrelated questions. What does it mean to be Jewish? And what does it mean to be antisemitic? Marcus demonstrates how the multiple understandings of Jewishness-as a religion, as an ethnic identity, and so forth-engender problems when we seek to define antisemitism and its legal ramifications. Marcus brings needed perspicacity and a wealth of experience to these crucial problems. - Stephen M. Feldman Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Wyoming Ken Marcus has written a seminal work on Jews and racial identity, distilling the major arguments surrounding the federal government's decision not to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism on American colleges and universities. Leveraging his own experience as the former OCR director, Marcus critiques his colleagues in government and offers important new analyses that can correct a continuing injustice. - Marc Dollinger Richard & Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility San Francisco State University

'... will be of considerable help to scholars of legal decisions regarding 'whiteness' and discrimination. The review of decisions is very helpful, and his criticism of the various approaches to defining discrimination is balanced, cogent, and useful.' Patricia Roberts-Miller, Human Rights Review

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Kenneth L. Marcus holds the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at the City University of New York's Bernard M. Baruch College School of Public Affairs. He is also Director of the Initiative on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research. Previously, Marcus was the Staff Director at the US Commission on Civil Rights. He speaks widely on college campuses and before community groups, and he publishes prolifically in academic law reviews and opinion journals.

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