Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VI
3. Part One. Identity
4. Chapter 1 The Mystery of American Jewish Identity 1
5. Chapter 2 The Jewishness of the New York Intellectuals: Sidney Hook, a Test Case 17
6. Chapter 3 Will Herberg’s Protestant—Catholic—Jew: A Critique 38
7. Chapter 4 The Impact of War: America’s Jews and World War II 57
8. Part Two. Religion
9. Chapter 5 A Shtetl in the Sun: Orthodoxy in Southern Florida 81
10. Chapter 6 The Crisis of Conservative Judaism 99
11. Chapter 7 Modern Orthodoxy in Crisis: A Test Case 108
12. Chapter 8 The Decline and Rise of Secular Judaism in America 123
13. Part Three. Antisemitism
14. Chapter 9 John Higham and American Antisemitism 135
15. Chapter 10 The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936: An American Anti-Nazi Protest 149
16. Chapter 11 The Approach of War: Congressional Isolationism and Antisemitism, 1939-1941 169
17. Chapter 12 Antisemitism Mississippi Style 191
18. Chapter 13 The Educational Crusade of George W. Armstrong 212
19. Chapter 14 Interpretations of the Crown Heights Riot 235
20. Chapter 15 The Cognitive Dissonance of American Jews 262
21. Part Four. Business
22. Chapter 16 Jewish Historians and American Capitalism 273
23. Chapter 17 The Absent American Jewish Business Mogul 281
24. Chapter 18 From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American Sports 298
25. Part Five. Politics
26. Chapter 19 Waiting for Righty? An Interpretation of the Political Behavior of American Jews 319
27. Chapter 20 Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and American Jewish History 343
28. Chapter 21 Jewish Intellectuals and the American Conservative Movement 356
29. Index 374