Key Texts in American Jewish Culture
Herausgeber: Kugelmass, Jack
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.
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
