1. Encountering the idea of America Julian Levinson; 2. Encountering English Hana Wirth-Nesher; 3. Encountering native origins Rachel Rubinstein; 4. Immigration and modernity, 1900-45 Werner Sollors; 5. Making it into the mainstream, 1945-70 Benjamin Schreier; 6. New voices, new challenges, 1970-2000 Michael Wood; 7. Religious selfhood, 1870-1950 Shira Wolosky; 8. Secularity, sacredness, and Jewish American poets, 1950-2000 Maeera Y. Shreiber; 9. Yiddish American poetry Avraham Novershtern; 10. Yiddish theater in America Nahma Sandrow; 11. Jewish American drama Edna Nahshon; 12. Jews and film Jonathan Freedman; 13. Hebrew in America Michael Weingrad; 14. Ladino in US literature and song Monique Rodrigues Balbuena; 15. Writing and remembering Jewish Middle Eastern pasts Dalia Kandiyoti; 16. The ghost of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish American literature Emily Miller Budick; 17. Israel in the Jewish American imagination Naomi Sokoloff; 18. Their New York: possessing the 'capital of words' Murray Baumgarten; 19. Spaces of Yidishkayt: New York in American Yiddish prose Mikhail Krutikov; 20. Landscapes: America and the Americas Sarah Phillips Casteel; 21. Across the border: Canadian Jewish writing Rebecca Margolis; 22. The role of the public intellectual in American culture Jesse Raber; 23. The caravan returns: Jewish American literary anthologies, 1935-2010 Wendy I. Zierler; 24. Poetics and politics of translation Anita Norich; 25. Jews on America's racial map Adam Zachary Newton; 26. Gender poetics in Jewish American poetry Kathryn Hellerstein; 27. Performance: queerly Jewish/Jewishly queer in the American theater Alisa Solomon; 28. Jewish American comic books and graphic novels Laurence Roth; 29. Jewish American popular culture Stephen J. Whitfield; 30. Jewish humor in America Marc Caplan; 31. Since 2000 Josh Lambert.