Mid-century : an anthology of Jewish life and culture in our times / edited by Harold U. Ribalow.

Includes bibliographical references.

[1.] First person singular: Goyim / J.L. Teller -- My father was a hero / Shlomo Katz -- Do I have a Jewish complex? / Edith Handleman -- Education of a Jew / Michael Blankfort -- A Jew in a Christian community / Robert H. Glauber -- I changed my name / Anonymous -- I.ve kept my name / David L. Cohn -- Some melamdim I have known / Harold U. Ribalow -- [2.] Belonging and survival: Meaning of Jewish existence / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Notes on Jewish survival / Menahem Boraisha -- When I think of Seraye / Milton Steinberg -- Are the Jews a "race"? / Ashley Montagu -- A parable of alienation / Daniel Bell -- Lost young intellectual / Irving Howe -- Plight of the Jewish intellectual / Leslie A. Fiedler -- To the young Jewish intellectuals / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Troubled intellectuals / Charles Angoff -- Repeat performance / Milton Hindus -- Concentration camps / Hannah Arendt -- Jews of the South / Harry L. Golden -- Story that must build itself / Maurice Samuel -- Religious trends in American Jewry / Will Herberg -- Building our future in America / Jacob B. Agus -- [3.] Culture: Hebrew: revival and redemption / Menachem Ribalow -- Literature of a vanished world / Naomi Ben-Asher -- Jewish book / Jacob S. Minkin -- Why I wrote a Jewish novel / Nine contemporary novelists -- Dilemma of the Jewish writer / Abraham Rothberg -- Anti-semitism and the Jewish novelist / Charles I. Glicksberg -- East Side gangsters of the paper-backs / Meyer Levin -- Don't you belive it! / Marvin Lowenthal -- Reflections on the Jewish question / Sidney Hook -- Problem of Ernest Bloch / Leon Stein -- Why Jews stay sober / Nathan Glazer -- Is Jewish humor dead? / Irving Kristol -- [4.] Zion: Need for Diaspora Zionism / Mordecai M. Kaplan -- Jewish culture and education in the Diaspora / Hayim Greenberg -- America is not Babylonia / Trude Weiss-Rosmarin -- Whither Israel? / Horace M. Kallen -- On dual loyalties / Hayim Greenberg -- Have Jews a divided loyalty? / Johan J. Smertenko -- Ben Gurion's dispute with American Zionists / Benno Weiser -- You can't go home again / Eliezer Whartman -- Painting in Israel / Alfred Werner -- Zion in contemporary fiction / Harold U. Ribalow.