Contents
Words of Welcome
Introduction to Rachel Wasserman Scholars Curriculum
About the Course
About the Author
Recommended Reading
Lesson 1: Timeline of American Judaism
Lesson 2: The Three-Generation Hypothesis: Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren
Lesson 3: Jewish Commitments Enriched and Weakened
Lesson 4: General Education, Jewish Education, and Jewish Americanization
Lesson 5: Jews as Creators of American Culture
Lesson 6: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and American-Jewish Self-Understanding
Lesson 7: Zionism and the State of Israel through the Eyes of American Jewry
Lesson 8: More American than Americans
Lesson 9: American Jewish Fiction
Lesson 10: Is the American Jewish Cup Half-Empty or Half-Full?