Abstract
* Preface. Film as Haggadah: Toward a Better Understanding of America's Jews * Chapter 1. Introduction: A Century of American Jewish Life * Chapter 2. The Jazz Singer: Out of the Jewish Ghetto (The 1920s) * Chapter 3. Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire: Films That Took on Anti-Semitism in 1947 (The 1940s) * Chapter 4. The Young Lions: Guaranteeing Acceptance (The 1950s) * Chapter 5. The Way We Were and The Prince of Tides: Barbra Streisand and the Evolving American Jewish Woman (The 1970s and 1980s) * Chapter 6. Avalon and Liberty Heights: The Spirit of Family-Remembering Better (The 1990s) * Chapter 7. Everything Is Illuminated: A New Direction in Film-Searching for a Usable Past (The Twenty-First Century) * Notes * Selected Bibliography * Selected Filmography * Index
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