On Rockingham Street explores, in memoir form, how assimilation of
Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe was shaped and affected
by the culture of Southern suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s. It probes
the key questions of Jewish survival, including whether American Judaism
has left many Jews unable to answer the question "Why are we Jewish?"
and whether the education of Jewish youth by the modern American
synagogue is adequate to maintain Judaism as a distinctive and
meaningful voice.