A Unique People in a Unique Land

This diverse collectionof essays explore the unique history of Jews inAmerica and the various ways in which they have definedtheir identities both as Americans and as Jews. The topics ofthe essays range from sports and business to religion andbusiness.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements for Reprinted Material
Introduction
Part One: Identity
1. The Mystery of American Jewish Identity
2. The Jewishness of the New York Intellectuals: Sidney Hook, a Test Case
3. Will Herberg s Protestant Catholic Jew: A Critique
4. The Impact of War: Americäs Jews and World War II
Part Two: Religion
5. A Shtetl in the Sun: Orthodoxy in Southern Florida
6. The Crisis of Conservative Judaism
7. Modern Orthodoxy in Crisis: A Test Case
8. The Decline and Rise of Secular Judaism in America
Part Three: Antisemitism
9. John Higham and American Antisemitism
10. The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936: An American Anti-Nazi Protest
11. The Approach of War: Congressional Isolationism and Antisemitism, 1939 1941
12. Antisemitism Mississippi Style
13. The Educational Crusade of George W. Armstrong
14. Interpretations of the Crown Heights Riot
15. The Cognitive Dissonance of American Jews
Part Four: Business
16. Jewish Historians and American Capitalism
17. The Absent American Jewish Business Mogul
18. From Participant to Owner: The Role of Jews in Contemporary American Sports
Part Five: Politics
19. Waiting For Righty?: An Interpretation of the Political Behavior of American Jews
20. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and American Jewish Memory
21. Jewish Intellectuals and the American Conservative Movement