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Maps the affective landscape of Jewish American culture. This book offers a genealogy of the emotions - shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget - that organized 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture.

Haunted in the New World

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Adjusting to America

1. Outsider in the Old World, Greenhorn in the New: Christopher Newman and David Levinsky

2. Gastronomic Nostalgia: Anzia Yezierska

3. The Claims of Descent: Immigrant Cinema

4. Haunted in the New World: Henry Roth

5. To Make "a Jew": Projecting Antisemitism in Post-War America

6. Memory and Repression: Goldberg Variations

7. The "Jewish Opera": Saul Bellow and Other Jewish Sons

Epilogue: Nostalgia and 1950s Popular Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Index