A Unique People in a Unique Land (Web PDF) von Edward Shapiro

This diverse collection of essays explore the unique history of Jews in America and the various ways in which they have defined their identities both as Americans and as Jews. The topics of the essays range from sports and business to religion and business.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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: America’s 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