Imagining the American Jewish Community » (1st Edition)

JACK WERTHEIMER is Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, and author of several books about American Judaism, including The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed (1995) and A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (1999). Most recently, he is the editor of Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice (2007).

A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities

Preface and Acknowledgments     vii
Contributors     xi
Reappraisals in American Jewish History
Rethinking the Definition of "Community" for a Migratory Age: 1654-1830   Holly Snyder     3
Buying and Selling "Jewish"; The Historical Impact of Commerce on Jewish Communal Life   Hasia Diner     28
Transnationalism and Americanization in East European Jewish Immigrant Public Life   Daniel Soyer     47
Community and the Discourse of Elegy: The Postwar Suburban Debate   Riv-Ellen Prell     67
Community on Display
War Stories: Jewish Patriotism on Parade   Beth S. Wenger     93
Orthodoxy on Display in the Arena of Sports, 1920-2000   Jeffrey S. Gurock     120
Best-in-Show: American Jews, Museum Exhibitions, and the Search for Community   Jenna Weissman Joselit     141
The "Be Virtuous!" Board Game: "Monopoly" in Contemporary Yiddish for Satmar Hasidic Girls   Marianne Sanua     156
Mediating Community: American Jewry and the New Media of the Twentieth Century   Jeffrey Shandler     175
Women as Agents of Communal Reconfiguration
The Limits of Imagination: White Christian Civilization and the Construction of American Jewish Womanhood in the 1890s   Karla Goldman     191
"They Raised Beautiful Families":Jewish Mothers' Child Rearing and Community Building   Joyce Antler     212
Feminism and the American Jewish Community   Paula E. Hyman     232
Community and Culture
Rereading the Americanization Narratives of Antin, Zangwill, and Cahan: Imagining and Unimagining the Jewish Community   Eli Lederhendler     253
From Yiddishism to American Judaism: The Impact of American Yiddish Schools on Their Students   David E. Fishman     271
The Accented Imagination: Speaking and Writing Jewish America   Hana Wirth-Nesher     286
American Jewish Thought and the Imagination of American Jewish Community   Arnold Eisen     304
Index     335