The Jewish community in America is the largest and most influential outside Israel itself. The Jewish lobby in Congress is ignored at a politician's peril, and Jews represent one of the most significant minorities in many large cities. In this book, Dan Cohn-Sherbok returns to his home town of Denver, Colorado, home of "Dynasty". In the style of the celebrated books by Tony Palmer, he interviews members of the Jewish community and simply records their words. He also speaks to non-Jews whose lives bring them into daily contact with the Jews. Over 100 voices are sampled to give a varied and multifaceted picture. The book includes interviews with religious leaders, community leaders, the young, the old, Jewish American princesses (and princes!), business people, teachers and students, traditional functionaries, converts and low-lifers.

Table of Contents:
A tour of Jewish Metropolis; congregational rabbis - the orthodox rabbi, the Hasidic rabbi, the traditional rabbi, the conservative rabbi, the reform rabbi, the Russian rabbi, the woman rabbi, the former rabbi; congregational leaders - the traditional cantor, the synagogue lay leader, Havurah leaders, the reconstructionist leader, gay congregation leaders, the reform cantor, the temple lay leader, leaders of humanistic Judaism; community leaders - the President of the Allied Jewish Federation, the Director of the Jewish Family Service, the Director of the Synagogue Council, the Russian leader, editors of the Jewish newspaper, the President of the Centre for Russian Jewry, the Hadassah leader, the President of the Hebrew Old Age Home; teachers - the university professor of Judaica, the Yeshiva official, the Governor of the Orthodox Girls' High School, the Bar Mitzvah teacher, the teacher in the Orthodox Day School, the religion school teacher, the museum curator; insiders serving the community - the Mohel, the Director of the Jewish Community Centre, the Kashrut supervisor, the administrator of a singles' agency, the administrator of a dating file, the owner of a Jewish gift shop, the manager of a kosher bakery, the funeral director; the young - the student from the Orthodox Day School, the student from the Pluralist Day School, the traditionalist Bar Mitzvah student, the student at the Pluralist High School, the summer camper, the reform confirmand, the Yeshiva dorm counsellor, the senior camp counsellor; the old - the community patriarch, the older member of a temple, the retired educationalist, the Russian physician, the assimilationist, the grandmother, the Holocaust survivor, the resident of the old age home; business and professional people - the paediatrician, the psychotherapist, the lawyer, the businessman, the inventor, the photographer, the accountant, the air force officer; the non-conformists - the unbeliever, the astrologer, the restaurateur, the magician, the sultan of strip-tease, the prison visitor, the feminist, the radicals; ambassadors to the gentile world - the Director of the Anti-Defamation League, the graduate of a prestigious American college, the Jewish partner in a mixed marriage, the society lady, the Director of the Conference of Christians and Jews, the Head of the Governor's Holocaust Programme, the debutante, the city treasurer; converts - the director of an outreach programme, the convinced convert, the lapsed convert, the Marrano, the Roman Catholic, the Krishna devotee, the pastor of the Messianic Jews, the director of an anti-cult organization; outsiders looking in - employees of the Jewish Country Club, the child minder, the Principal of the Pluralist High School, the gentile spouse, the teacher of inter-faith relations, the Catholic ecumenist, the policeman, the state senator.