Table of Contents
Introduction, by Marc Lee Raphael
Chronological Essays
1. America's Earliest Jewish Settlers, 1654-1820, by Eli Faber
2. Expanding Jewish Life in America, 1826-1901, by Dianne Ashton
3. The Great Wave: Eastern European Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1880-1924, by Eric L. Goldstein
4. American Judaism Between the Two World Wars, by Jeffrey S. Gurock
5. Triumph, Accommodation, and Resistance: American Jewish Life from the End of World War II to the Six-Day War, by Riv-Ellen Prell
6. Influence and Affluence, 1967-2000, by Stephen J. Whitfield
Topical Essays
7. The Ever Dying Denomination: American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965, by Kimmy Caplan
8. The History of Jewish Education in America, 1700-2000, by Melissa Klapper
9. A Regional Context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930, by William Toll
10. Fun and Games: The American Jewish Social Club, by Jenna Weissman Joselit
11. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History, by Mark K. Bauman
12. American Jewish Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust, by Rafael Medoff
13. Holocaust Consciousness and American Jewish Politics, by Michael E. Staub
14. What Is American Jewish Culture?, by Jeffrey Shandler
15. Rites of Citizenship: Jewish Celebrations of the Nation, by Beth S. Wenger
16. A Bright New Constellation: Feminism and American Judaism, by Pamela S. Nadell
17. Contemporary Jewish Thought, by Alan T. Levenson
18. There's No Space Like Home: The Representation of Jewish American Life, by Linda S. Raphael
Contributors
Index