From Left to Right, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Sinkoff, Nancy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Word about Personal and Place Names Introduction I. 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 The Aspirantur Christian and Jewish Poles Days of Decision

3. The New York YIVO in Wartime

Back in the United States Trouble on the YIVO’s 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

Writing Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora Khurbn Forshung for the American Public Dubnow’s Other Daughter

8. Defending Polish Jewry: The War Against the Jews

The Centrality of Antisemitism to Hitler’s 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” 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 Zakhor

Epilogue: Jewish History, Jewish Politics

Historical Agency: Who Has It?

Appendix Notes Bibliography Index