Contents -- Preface -- Section I. Cyrus Adler:Toward the Biographyof an American Jew -- The Invention of American Jewish History -- Cyrus Adler and The American:a Moment in the Intellectual History of American Jewry -- Cyrus Adler the Philadelphian -- Two North American Kehillot and Their Structure:Philadelphia and Montreal -- Cyrus Adler and the Jewish Theological Seminaryof America: Image and Reality -- Cyrus Adler: President of the Jewish Theological Seminary ofAmerica, 1915-1940 -- The Correspondence of Cyrus Adler and Racie Friedenwald Adler:New Perspectives on the Development of American Jewry in theEarly Twentieth Century -- Section II. Orthodox Judaismin North America -- The First Hasidic Rabbis in North America -- Anshe Sfard: the Creation of the First HasidicCongregations in North America -- Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales ofan American Yiddish Journalist -- Because of Our Many Sins: The Contemporary Jewish Worldas Reflected in the Responsa of Rabbi Moses Feinstein -- That Marvelous Midos Machine:Audio Tapes as an Orthodox Educational Medium -- "Practically, I am a Fundamentalist": Twentieth Century OrthodoxJews Contend with Evolution and Its Implications -- Section III. Contemporary American Judaism -- American Jewish Views of Evolution and Intelligent Design1 -- Index.