Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Jerusalem across the Sea -- 2. The First Crisis of American Jewry -- 3. Lincoln and the "Israelites" -- 4. Vulture of the Camp -- 5. The Hunger for Cotton -- 6. Exile and Other Edicts from the Battlefield -- 7. Confederate Ideology and Southern Jewry -- 8. Americanize as Fast as You Can -- 9. Lincoln, Grant, and the Jewish Vote -- 10. Prosperity and Discrimination in the Gilded Age -- 11. Toward a Progressive and Americanized Judaism -- 12. Violence in the Backwaters of Europe -- 13. A Judaism for the American Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.