Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Culture, Commerce, and Class -- 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform -- 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side -- 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music -- II. Siting the Jewish Tomorrow -- 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists -- 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 -- 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about ''The First Hebrew City''? -- 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben's Journey between Shuk and Suk -- III. Lost in Place -- 8. The ''Wandering Jew'' from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor -- 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel -- IV. Portraits of the Artist as Jew -- 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn's Late Paintings -- 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter -- 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol'skii -- V. In Search of a Usable Aesthetic -- 13. A Modern Mitzvah-Space-Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig -- 14. Reestablishing a ''Jewish Spirit'' in American Synagogue Music: The Music of A. W. Binder -- 15. The Evolution of Philadelphia's Russian Sher Medley -- VI. Hotel Terminus -- 16. Framing Nazi Art Loot -- 17. Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of Dance in Germany -- 18. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments.