Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Keys and Canons by Jack Kugelmass

Literature
Eros and Americanization: David Levinsky and the Etiquette of Race by Esther Romeyn
The Meanings of Marjorie Morningstar by Gordon Hutner
Is It Good for the Jews? The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Charles Dellheim
Performing Jewish Identity in Philip Roth's Counterlife by Emily Miller Budick

Film and Theater
The Limits of Empathy: Hollywood's Imaging of Jews circa 1947 by Donald Weber
Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: A History of Fiddler on the Roof by Stephen J. Whitfield

Television
"Yesterday's Woman," Today's Moral Guide: Molly Goldberg as Jewish Mother by Joyce Antler
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: The Unlamented Demise of Bridget Loves Bernie by Jack Kugelmass

The Arts
Jewish Universalism: Some Visual Texts and Subtexts by Ezra Mendelsohn
"My Own Kaddish": Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 by David Schiller

Nonfiction
Louis Finkelstein's The Jews: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Presentation of Judaism by Harvey E. Goldberg
Embracing World of Our Fathers: The Context of Reception by Hasia Diner

Religion
Peace of Mind (1946): Judaism and the Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America by Andrew R. Heinze
Kaplan's Key: A Dynamo "in de middle" of the Neighborhood by Andrew Bush and Deborah Dash Moore
Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew: A Critique by Edward Shapiro
One Nation, with Liberty and Haggadahs for All by Joel Gereboff

Contributors
Index

About the Author

Jack Kugelmass is the Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Holocaust and Modern Jewish Studies and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University. He is the author or editor of numerous books on Jewish history and culture including the forthcoming Rites of the Tribe: The Public Culture of American Jewry.

Reviews

"?The surprisingly Jewish history of the Rorschach inkblot test," by Benjamin Ivry
*The Forward*

This highly readable set of essays, assembled by one of the keenest observers of American Jewish life, deftly probes issues of minority identity and distinctiveness by analyzing key texts from the cultural worlds of film, fiction, TV, and scholarship. The pace is lively and the quality high.
*Koshland, Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion, Stanford University*

This sparkling collection of essays is itself a key critical text in the formation of American Jewish culture. It moves the discussion along in new and promising directions.
*Harvard University*

"The surprisingly Jewish history of the Rorschach inkblot test," by Benjamin Ivry
*The Forward*