Contents -- Foreword: Israel: The Teen Years (Nancy E. Berg) -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. ''Contacting the Enemy'' -- An Iraqi Muslim's Lament -- Kishtainy Writes Back -- Kishtainy Comes to Jerusalem -- Rabbi Petuchowski's Predicament -- Chapter 2. In the Wilderness -- The American Council for Judaism -- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and I -- Erosion -- All Doors Tightly Shut -- To a Friend who Chose to Adapt -- Chapter 3. The Morning After -- Oft-Celebrated Victory -- Soul Mates -- U.S. Jewry's Israel Tangle -- Chapter 4. An Assortment of Concerns -- Western Vanities -- Postscript: George Steiner Raises a Point -- The Zionism-Judaism Mix-Up -- Letters to Irene Gendzier -- Nationality or Pan-Movement? -- Chapter 5. Encounters: A Palestinian Intellectual Tells His Story -- Chapter 6. The Majority-Minority Syndrome -- Israel Versus the United States -- Tremors -- Elie Kedourie as a ''Zionist Historian'': Further Letters to Irene Gendzier -- Irving Howe and Dissent -- Chapter 7. Uses and Abuses of History -- Golda Meir Redefines Judaism -- Moot Points -- Reviews -- Fury Misdirected -- Bible and Nationality -- Boomerang -- Some Uses of History -- Divergent Problems -- Orthodox Dissent -- Chapter 8. Recoupment -- A Glimpse of the Land of the Teutons -- Reviews -- Futile Pursuit -- News from Nowhere -- Lost and Found -- Nazi Delusions -- Perils of Retrojection -- Chapter 9. Jews and Muslims -- Review: The Jews of Palestine -- Letters to Esther Cohen -- Rewrites -- Chapter 10. Orientalism Revisited -- Reviews -- Little New to Impart -- Edward Said's Reservations -- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Ignorance -- Vindications -- Chapter 11. The ''Who Is a Jew?'' Charade -- Review: Israel and Ishmael -- Who Is a Jew? -- Responses and a Rejoinder: Who's a Rabbi? -- Epilogue -- From Gemara to Shulhan 'Arukh -- Sacred Cows No More -- "Mixing the Exiles" -- Index.