The Jewish presence : essays on identity and history / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish identity : a matter of fate, a matter of choice -- Arnold Schoenberg : a search for Jewish identity -- On being a woman in Shul -- Explaining American Jews -- Middle-class Judaism -- When reform was young -- From past to past : Jewish east Europe to Jewish east side -- The Jewishness of the American Jewish labor movement -- Yiddish : past, present, and perfected -- Yiddish and its translation -- Max Weinreich : scholarship of Yiddish -- Picturing the past -- Can anti-semitism be measured? -- Smut and anti-semitism -- In Hitler's service : Albert Speer -- An obedient killer : Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka -- Bleaching the black lie : the case of Theresienstadt -- Blaming the Jews : the charge of perfidy -- Resistance : a doomed struggle -- Belsen remembered.