Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century: National Identity and Culture (Victoria Khiterer) -- Sholom Aleichem -- Other Kiev Jewish Writers and Poets -- The War of Jewish Languages -- Jewish Artists -- Jews in Popular Culture in Kiev -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Viennese Culture in 1900: Bridging the Divide (Klaus Hödl) -- Going beyond the acculturation/assimilation narrative -- The problem with Jewishness as an analytical category -- Benefits of research on Jews in popular culture -- (A) Insight into Jewish everyday life -- (B) The overlapping of high and popular culture -- (C) Specifics of Viennese Jewry -- Summary -- Works Cited -- Ireland's Jewish Identity Crisis (Natalie Wynn) -- Irish Jewry: A Brief Historical Context -- Jews and the Irish National Narrative -- Assessments of the Jewish Experience in Ireland -- Defining Irish-Jewish Identity -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- The Community Memory of Springfield, Missouri Suppresses the City's Jewish Past (Mara W. Cohen Ioannides) -- Works Cited -- Jewminicanos and the Sosúa Settlement (Anna Maria Karczewska) -- Works Cited -- Stereotyping through Silence and Speech. Cross-cultural Differences in the Conversational Styles of Poles and Jews as Presented in Polish Literature Introduction (Hanna Komorowska) -- Introduction -- Conversational styles and their components -- Silence and speech in conversational styles as sources of stereotyping. The role of psychological and sociological attributions -- Polish and Jewish conversational styles as presented in Polish literature -- Conclusion. Polish and Jewish conversational styles as presented in Polish literature vis-à vis cross-culturally identified styles -- Works Cited -- No Longer Other? Jews in Czesław Miłosz's Landscape (Annette Aronowicz) -- Jews in Lithuania.

The Metaphysical Significance of the Jews -- Critical Reflections -- Works Cited -- Manifestations of Jewishness in Literature of Latin America (Magdalena Szkwarek) -- Introduction -- Latin American Jewish Literature -- Alberto Gerchunoff -- Jorge Luis Borges -- A Jewish Prostitute -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Alvaro Mutis -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Temptations of Non-Jewish Lifestyle in Allegra Goodman's and Pearl Abraham's Novels (Dorota Mihułka) -- Works Cited -- "False Veins Under the Skin": Does Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker Fail as Holocaust Fiction? (Jacek Partyka) -- I. -- II. -- III. -- Works Cited -- The Feelings of Survivors of the First Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto (Maria Ferenc Piotrowska) -- Sources and methods used -- Definition of family -- Theoretical background -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Bożena Keff's On Mother and the Fatherland (Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk) -- Works Cited -- A Quest for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland: Agata Tuszyńska's Family History (Justyna Sierakowska) -- Works Cited -- Normalization through Literature: Translations from German into Hebrew during the 1970s (Na'ama Sheffi) -- Works Cited -- The Sacralization and Secularization of the Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (Yechiel Weizman) -- Introduction -- Conceptual clarification -- Before the destruction -- After the Holocaust -- Regaining sacredness? -- Works Cited.