Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. NTRODUCTION 1
4. PROLOGUE 11
5. PAR T I Politics of Americanization
6. CHAPTER 1 Americanization Politics and the Yiddish Press 33
7. CHAPTER 2 American Zionism and Racial Justice: New Perspectives from the Past 45
8. CHAPTER 3 Rethinking American Jewish Liberalism: Jewish Communists and Jewish Life, 1946–56 63
9. PAR T II Absences and Assumptions
10. CHAPTER 4 American Jewish History as Told by the Irish, 1870–1930 79
11. CHAPTER 5 Protestant Theology and the Goals of Jewish-Christian Relations 94
12. CHAPTER 6 On the Importance of Coalitional Feminism to American Jewish History 112
13. CHAPTER 7 Catching the Hebrew Accent: Performing Race in American Jewish Culture 131
14. CHAPTER 8 Schocken Books: The Story of a Jewish Publisher and American Race Consciousness 146
15. CHAPTER 9 Retelling Jewish American Literature Through Women Writers 161
16. PAR T I V Material Meanings
17. CHAPTER 10 Jewish Lightning: The Enduring Figure of the Jewish Arsonist 183
18. CHAPTER 11 Hooked to a Family Story: Mundane Objects and Holocaust Representation 201
19. CHAPTER 12 Taking Leave While Holding Fast: Jewish Congregations and Their Buildings in Twenty-First- Century America 215
20. CHAPTER 13 “Can I Ask You a Question?” 233
21. List of Contributors 245
22. INDEX 247
23. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 253