The German-Jewish legacy in America, 1938-1988 : from Bildung to the Bill of Rights / edited and introduced by Abraham J. Peck.

Reprinted from American Jewish archives, v. 40, no. 2, Nov. 1988.

"The German-Jewish legacy : an overstated ideal," by Theodore Wiener, p. [151]-155.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Abraham J. Peck -- The end is not yet : a personal memoir of the German-Jewish legacy in America / George L. Mosse -- The German-Jewish legacy and I : some personal reflections / Peter Gay -- German culture, Jewish ethics / Guy Stern -- An autobiographical approach to the German-Jewish legacy / Georg G. Iggers -- German Jewry as spirit and as legacy / Harry Zohn -- The German-Jewish legacy after Auschwitz / Norbert Wollheim -- A German-Jewish legacy / Manfred Jonas -- Bildung : was it good for the Jews? / Henry L. Feingold -- Bildung and the dilemma of hyphenation / Herbert Pierre Secher -- Reflections on the Kristallnacht and the end of German Jewry : some transcendent thoughts / Curt C. Silberman -- The less than total break / Wolfgang Holdheim -- The German-Jewish legacy : a question of fate / Alfred Gottschalk.

The elusive German-Jewish heritage in America / W. Gunther Plaut -- A precious legacy / Joseph B. Maier -- Emancipation and post-emancipation identities : reflections on on-going research / Herbert A. Strauss -- A heritage freighted across the abyss / Michael A. Meyer -- Engagement and the German-Jewish legacy / Aryeh Neier -- The German-Jewish heritage : a view from 1988 / Hans Juergensen -- Le déraciné : finding new roots in exile / Henry R. Huttenbach -- Fifty years after crystal night and forty in America / Werner Weinberg -- Thoughts about the German-Jewish legacy in the United States by a man from Aufbau / Hans J. Steinitz -- Thoughts about my German-Jewish legacy / Tom L. Freudenheim -- The German-Jewish legacy : an overstated ideal / Theodore Wiener.

A German past, and American future / William W. Hallo -- The German-Jewish legacy : one man's dilemma and solution / Henry Meyer -- The German Jew in America : the last wave of immigrants / Walter Jacob -- The German-Jewish legacy in America : a second generation perspective / Lucy Y. Steinitz -- The German-Jewish legacy beyond America : a South African example / Steven E. Aschheim -- Fragments of a German-Jewish heritage in four "Americans" / Carol Ascher ... [et al.] -- My German-Jewish legacy and theirs / Anthony Heilbut -- Bildung : an agenda of the soul / Uri D. Herscher -- Reflections on the German-Jewish legacy : North American style / Frances Henry -- The German-Jewish legacy in America: a process of continuity and completion / Robert Liberles.

The last generation of German-Jewishness / Steven Lowenstein -- A non-Jewish German looks at the German-Jewish legacy / Gert Niers -- Fifty years after Kristallnacht : another second generation perspective / Diane R. Spielmann and Lee A. Spielmann -- The German-Jewish experience : toward a useable past / Jack Wertheimer.