Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I. One Nation under Stress, Divisible: Jewish Immigrants and the National Psyche
7. CHAPTER 1 Jews and the Psychodynamics of American Life 11
8. PART II. The Moral Universe of the Jews
9. CHAPTER 2 Benjamin Franklin in Hebrew: The Musar Sage of Philadelphia 39
10. CHAPTER 3 Jews and the Crisis of the Psyche 50
11. CHAPTER 4 Freud and Adler: The Rise of Jewish Psychoanalytic Moralism 64
12. PART III. Jewish Morality and the Psychological Shift of American Culture, 1890–1945
13. CHAPTER 5 Popular Psychology: The Great American Synthesis of Religion and Science 87
14. CHAPTER 6 Jewish Psychological Evangelism: A Collective Biography of the First Generation 103
15. CHAPTER 7 The Moronic Immigrant and the Neurotic Jew: Jews and American Perceptions of Intelligence, Personality, and Race 140
16. CHAPTER 8 The Specter of the Mob: Jews and the Battle for the American Unconscious 165
17. PART IV. Peace of Mind: Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America
18. CHAPTER 9 Rabbi Liebman and the Psychic Pain of the World War II Generation 195
19. CHAPTER 10 Peace of Mind: A New Jewish Gospel of Love 217
20. CHAPTER 11 Clare Boothe Luce and the Catholic-Jewish Clash over Freud in America 241
21. PART V. Jews and the American Search for Meaning, 1950–2000
22. CHAPTER 12 Jews and the Creation of American Humanism 261
23. CHAPTER 13 Joyce Brothers: The Jewish Woman as Psychologist of Suburban America 295
24. CHAPTER 14 Holocaust, Hasidism, Suffering, Redemption 321
25. Conclusion 349
26. Notes 353
27. Index 419