3 “Tammany’s Chosen People” How the Irish Courted the Jewish Vote in Progressive-Era New York

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: A Good Place to Meet ix
4. Introduction: Forged in America 1
5. 1 A Singular Encounter: Irish and Jews in Their American Home 9
6. 2 The Right to Choose: The Public Health and Birth Control Movements of Lillian Wald and Margaret Sanger 32
7. 3 “Tammany’s Chosen People” How the Irish Courted the Jewish Vote in Progressive-Era New York 56
8. 4 Jews, Paul O’Dwyer, and a New York Life 67
9. 5 Defending Literary Genius: James Joyce’s Ulysses on Trial 89
10. 6 Laughter and Love between the Irish and the Jews 115
11. 7 Irish-Jewish Couples in American Film and Television 127
12. 8 Playing the Nation: Constructing Cultural Revivals in the Irish and the Jewish Diaspora 149
13. 9 The Irish, the Jews, and Wilson’s “Self-Determination” 167
14. 10 A Tradition of Acceptance Jews and Their Basketball Players at an Irish Catholic College 184
15. Acknowledgments 203
16. Notes 205
17. About the Editors 255
18. About the Contributors 257
19. Index 259