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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- I. Introduction: The Ironies of American Jewish History -- 2. The View from the Old World: German-Jewish Perspectives -- 3. The View from the Old World: East European Jewish Perspectives -- 4. Jewish Writers on the New Diaspora -- 5. Movies in America as Paradigms of Accommodation -- 6. From Equality to Liberty: The Changing Political Culture of American Jews -- 7. Will Herberg's Path from Marxism to Judaism: A Case Study in the Transformation of Jewish Belief -- 8. The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews -- 9. Liberalism, Judaism, and American Jews: A Response -- 10. Zionism and American Politics -- 11. Spiritual Zionists and Jewish Sovereignty -- 12. Zion in the Mind of the American Rabbinate during the 1940s -- 13. The Evolution of the American Synagogue -- 14. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side -- 15. Jewish in Dishes: Kashrut in the New World -- 16. Feminism and American Reform Judaism -- 17. Ezrat Nashim and the Emergence of a New Jewish Feminism -- 18. Conservative Judaism: The Ethical Challenge of Feminist Change -- 19. The Ninth Siyum Ha-Shas: A Case Study in Orthodox Contra-Acculturation -- 20. Americanism and Judaism in the Thought of Mordecai M. Kaplan -- 21. The American Mission of Abraham Joshua Heschel -- 22. Modern Times and Jewish Assimilation -- 23. Jewish Continuity over Judaic Content: The Moderately Affiliated American Jew -- 24. From an External to an Internal Agenda -- 25. Jewish Survival, Antisemitism, and Negotiation with the Tradition -- 26. American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Faith -- Index

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?Gilman uses his subject to unpack a sequence of important issues: what does it mean to be multicultural? Can the experience of diaspora Judaism serve as a useful model for Islam in today's multicultu