Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. ESTABLISHING NEW IDENTITIES -- ONE The Construction of a Secular Jewish Identity: European and American Influences in Israeli Education -- TWO Producing the Future: The Impresario Culture of American Zionism before 1948 -- THREE Moroccan Jews and the Shaping of Israel's Sacred Geography -- FOUR Identity, Ritual, and Pilgrimage: The Meetings of the Israel Exploration Society -- FIVE Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Clothing, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience -- SIX Sculpting an American Jewish Hero: The Monuments, Myths, and Legends of Haym Salomon -- II. CONTESTED IDENTITIES -- SEVEN Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography -- EIGHT The Shoah as Israel's Political Trope -- NINE ''I Am Other'': The Holocaust Survivor's Point of View in Yehudit Hendel's Short Story ''They Are Others'' -- TEN ''A Drastically Bifurcated Legacy:'' Homeland and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Jewish American Literature -- ELEVEN The Impact of Statehood on the Hebrew Literary Imagination: Haim Hazaz and the Zionist Narrative -- III. POLITICAL CULTURES -- TWELVE Becoming Ethnic, Becoming American: Different Patterns and Configurations of the Assimilation of Eastern European Jews, 1890-1940 -- THIRTEEN Strangers No Longer: Jews and Postwar American Political Culture -- FOURTEEN Changing Places, Changing Cultures: Divergent Jewish Political Cultures -- Epilogue: On Living in Two Cultures -- Index.