Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History; PART ONE Imagining America; CHAPTER 2 The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives; CHAPTER 3 The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives; CHAPTER 4 Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora; CHAPTER 5 Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation; PART TWO Jews and the American Liberal Tradition; CHAPTER 6 From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews CHAPTER 7 Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish BeliefCHAPTER 8 The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews; CHAPTER 9 Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response; PART THREE Zionism in an American Setting; CHAPTER 10 Zionism and American Politics; CHAPTER 11 Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty; CHAPTER 12 Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s; PART FOUR Traditional Religion in an American Setting; CHAPTER 13 The Evolution of the American Synagogue CHAPTER 14 Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East SideCHAPTER 15 Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World; PART FIVE The Impact of the Women's Movement; CHAPTER 16 Feminism and American Reform Judaism; CHAPTER 17 Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism; CHAPTER 18 Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change; PART SIX Three Modes of Religiosity; CHAPTER 19 The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation; CHAPTER 20 Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan CHAPTER 21 The American Mission of Abraham Joshua HeschelPART SEVEN Surviving as Jews in Twenty-First-Century America; CHAPTER 22 Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation; CHAPTER 23 Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew; CHAPTER 24 From an External to an Internal Agenda; CHAPTER 25 Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition; CHAPTER 26 American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith; Index | 
