Front Matter -- Half Tittle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Zionist Identity -- Hebrew Literature and Dor Hamedinah: Portrait of a Literary Generation -- The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer -- Philip Roth's To Jerusalem and Back -- Contemporary Israeli Literature and the Subject of Fiction: From Nationhood to the Self -- Magnified and Sanctified:Liturgy in Contemporary Jewish American Literature -- Jazz and Jewspeech: The Anatomy of Yiddish in American Jewish Culture -- The Yiddish and the Hebrew Writers Head for Home -- The Conversion of the Jews and Other Narratives of Self-Definition: Notes Toward the Writing of Jewish American Literary History -- or, Adventures in Hebrew School -- The Mrican American and Israeli "Other" in the Construction of Jewish American Identity -- Schizolingua: Or, How Many Years Can Modern Hebrew Remain Modern?On the Ideological Dictates of the Hebrew Language -- Betrayal of the Mother Tongue in the Creation of National Identity -- German Jewish Writers during the Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy: Assessing the Assessment of Gershon Shaked -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index.