From left to right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York intellectuals, and the politics of Jewish history

In New York City In The Interwar Years -- 1.American Immigrant Daughter -- In the Alcoves of Hunter College -- Starting Out in Yiddish in the 1930s -- Lost in Migration: Leibush Lehrer's Ambivalent Secularism -- II.In Poland, Refugee New York City, And Germany -- 2.An American in Vilna -- The Men and Women of the YIVO 3 -- The Aspirantur -- Christian and Jewish Poles -- Days of Decision -- 3.The New York YIVO in Wartime -- Back in the United States -- Trouble on the YIVOs Home Front -- 4.In the American and British Zones of Occupied Postwar Germany -- The Offenbach Archival Depot -- In the British Zone -- III.Becoming An American -- 5.Insider Politics at the American Jewish Committee -- Seeing Red -- Intergroup Relations in Black, White, and Jewish -- First Cracks in Intergroup Relations -- 6.Whither Secularism? -- How High the Wall? -- The Personal Is Political -- 7.Representing Polish Jewry: The Golden Tradition --

Contents note continued: Writing Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora -- Khurbn Forshung for the American Public -- Dubnows Other Daughter -- 8.Defending Polish Jewry: The War Against the Jews -- The Centrality of Antisemitism to Hitlers Intentionalism -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 1 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg---and Arendt, Part 2 -- Dawidowicz and Hilberg, Part 3 -- 9.Universalism and Particularism among the New York Intellectuals -- Arendt's Allure -- Dawidowicz's Authenticity -- IV.Eastern Europe In America -- 10.The Europeanness of the Jewish "Neoconservative Turn" -- Jewish Neoconservative Avant la Lettre -- The Problem of Violence and Black Power -- The Language and Literature of Power---and Antisemitism -- Postcolonialism and the External Critique of Jewish "Power" -- That "Infamous" Resolution -- 11.Dina d'malkhuta Dina ("The Law of the Land Is the Law") -- Utopian Anxiety -- The New Jewish Left and the Internal Critique of Jewish "Power" --

Contents note continued: Quiescence as Diasporic Political Savvy

Besieged, Bothered, and Bewildered: The Enthusiasms of the Counterculture

Intellectual Tomboy

Making Peace with Capitalism

12.Warsaw and Vilna on Her Mind

The Holocaust on the Mall

Stung by Stingo

Babi Yar, the War in the East, and Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

Polish-Jewish Relations and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

13.Rapprochement with Republicanism

Recriminations on American Soil

Operation Peace for Galilee and Israel-Diaspora Politics

A Small Circle of Friends

Crossing the Aisle

Reagan, Bitburg, and German Guilt

Zakbor

Epilogue: Jewish History, Jewish Politics

Historical Agency: Who Has It?.