Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Culture, Commerce, and Class
7. Introduction 21
8. Chapter 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform 23
9. Chapter 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York’s Lower East Side 42
10. Chapter 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music 57
11. II. Siting the Jewish Tomorrow
12. Introduction 79
13. Chapter 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists 83
14. Chapter 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939/40 98
15. Chapter 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about ‘‘The First Hebrew City’’? 116
16. Chapter 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben’s Journey between Shuk and Suk 128
17. III. Lost in Place
18. Introduction 145
19. Chapter 8. The ‘‘Wandering Jew’’ from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor 147
20. Chapter 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel 176
21. IV. Portraits of the Artist as Jew
22. Introduction 193
23. Chapter 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn’s Late Paintings 197
24. Chapter 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter 208
25. Chapter 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol’skii 228
26. V. In Search of a Usable Aesthetic
27. Introduction 255
28. Chapter 13. A Modern Mitzvah-Space-Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig 257
29. Chapter 14. Reestablishing a ‘‘Jewish Spirit’’ in American Synagogue Music: The Music of A. W. Binder 270
30. Chapter 15. The Evolution of Philadelphia’s Russian Sher Medley 288
31. VI. Hotel Terminus
32. Introduction 315
33. Chapter 16. Framing Nazi Art Loot 319
34. Chapter 17. Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of Dance in Germany 335
35. Chapter 18. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls’s Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 353
36. Notes 381
37. Notes on Contributors 445
38. Acknowledgments 451