Why is America different? : American Jewry on its 350th anniversary / edited by Steven T. Katz.

Includes bibliographical references.

In place of an introduction : some thoughts on American Jewish exceptionalism / Steven T. Katz -- Enlightenment, statesmen and the Jews in Europe and the United States, 1776-1820 / Allan Arkush -- American exceptionalism : the case of the Jews, 1750-1850 / Frederic Cople Jaher -- Why and how are Americans different? / Hasia Diner -- Immigrant Jews and the challenge of American athleticism / Jeffrey Gurock -- America's most memorable Zionist leaders / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Encountering Jewish feminism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Judaism and the pluralist dynamic / Peter L. Berger -- From Treifene Medina to Goldene Medina : changing perspectives on the United States among American Haredim / Chaim I. Waxman -- From many, one? Reflections on the notion of American Jews / Arnold Eisen -- Superbowl parties, women rabbis and freedon seders : twenty-first century Jewish American synergy / Rela Mintz Geffen -- American anti-Semitism : the myth and reality of American exceptionalism / Michael N. Dobkowski -- To make "a Jew" : projecting anti-Semitism in post-war America / Donald Weber -- Jews in the United States : how good it has been / Leonard Dinnerstein -- Anti-Semitism today / Abraham Foxman -- NYT : the newspaper American Jews love to hate / Ari L. Goldman -- Confessions of a Jewish journalist / Gary Rosenblatt -- Portraits of America in Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Yiddishkeit and the American Jewish writer : the breakthrough reconsidered / Eugene Goodheart -- Cinema as a lens on America's Jews / Eric A. Goldman -- What makes America different : Jewish artists and their concerns in the twentieth century / Ori Z. Soltes -- Studies in hysteria, or Jewish comedy from Shtetlakh to Shticklakh / Mark Shechner -- Transformation of traditional Jewish music in Jewish America / Hankus Netsky -- America : memories of doubts and hope / Elie Wiesel.