Jewish Social Studies

Volume 5
Numbers 1& 2 American Jewish History & Culture
Number 3Spring/Summer 1999

CONTENTS Volume 5, Numbers 1&2 Fall 98/Winter 99

SPECIAL ISSUE:
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Steven J. Zipperstein
Introduction / 1

Steven J. Zipperstein
The First Loves of Isaac Rosenfeld / 3

Arnold Eisen
In the Wilderness: Reflections on American Jewish Culture / 25

Eli Lederhendler
Historical Reflections on the Problem of American Jewish Culture / 40

Jonathan Sarna
The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture / 52

Arnold J. Band
Scholarship as Lamentation: Shalom Spiegal on "The Binding of Isaac" / 80

 Anita Norich
"Harbe Sugyes/Puzzling Questions": Yiddish and English Culture in America During the Holocaust / 91

John Felstiner
"O Taste and See": The Question of Content in American Jewish Poetry / 111

Donald Weber
Taking Jewish American Popular Culture Seriously: The Yinglish Worlds of Gertrude Berg, Milton Berle, and Mickey Katz / 124

Stephen Whitfield
Yentl / 154

Beth S. Wenger
Mitzvah and Medicine: Gender, Assimilation, and the Scientific Defense of "Family Purity" / 177

CONTRIBUTORS / 203

FORTHCOMING ISSUES / 205

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS / 206

CONTENTS Volume 5, Number 3 Spring/Summer 99

ARTICLES

Shlomo Avineri
Theodor Herzl's Diaries as a Bildungsroman / 1

Maurizio Viano
Life Is Beautiful: Reception, Allegory, and Holocaust Laughter / 47

Bryan Cheyette
Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction / 67

Na'ama Sheffi
The Jewish Expulsion from Spein and the Rise of Nationals Socialism on the Hebrew Stage / 82

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Assimilation and Community Reconsidered: The Jewish Community in Königsberg, 1871-1914 / 104

Mitchell B. Hart
The Historian's Past in Three Recent Jewish Autobiographies / 132

 Yosef Salmon
The Historical Imagination of Jacob Katz: On the Origins of Jewish Nationalism / 161

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Ladies' Tailor and the End of Soviet Jewry / 180

Abraham Brumberg
Anniversaries in Conflict: On the Centenary of the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund / 196

Daniel Soyer
Documenting Immigrant Lives at an Immigrant Institution: Yivo's Autobiography Contest of 1942 / 218

CONTRIBUTORS / 244

FORTHCOMING ISSUES / 246

NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS / 247
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