Introduction | Pete Hamill 7
About the Collection | Alana Newhouse 13
Acknowledgements 16
Contributors 18
ONE 1897-1925 21
Leaving Europe | Ruth Wisse 24
Welcome To The Lower East Side | Allan Nadler 29
Labor | Paul Berman 59
Film | J. Hoberman 79
TWO 1926-1945 93
Yiddish Theater | Caraid O'Brien 117
Diaspora Landscapes | Ilan Stavans 154
The Holocaust | Deborah E. Lipstadt 170
THREE 1946-1973 177
Israel | Alan M. Dershowitz 186
Upward into American Life | Jenna Weissman Joselit 213
Sports | Roger Kahn 240
Holy Hollywood | Leon Wieseltier 259
FOUR 1974-1989 275
Politics | Nathan Glazer 283
Jewish Identity | Paul Zakrzewski 296
FIVE 1990 and beyond 301
Revival | J.J. Goldberg 331
Photo Credits 350