Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul
1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History
2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl
Part 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America
3. "Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew
4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God
5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations
Part 3. Yiddish Interlude
6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America
Part 4. "Orating in New Yorkese": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America
7. "My Private Orthodoxy": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism
8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of Yiddishkayt
Conclusion
Notes
Index