Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination

Index

f 239 f Index Aacqumeh, 5 Abernathy, Milton, 100, 101 Abernathy, Minna, 100 Acoma, 5, 53 Adair, James: History of the American Indian, 12–13 Adams, John, 26 Adler, Felix, 90–91 Aesop’s Fables, 79 African Americans: and American Indians, 7, 114; relations with Jews, 16, 149; repatriation schemes for, 30 Ahokas, Pirjo, on Malamud’s The People, 160 Ahwahneechee, 86 Alexie, Sherman, 18, 149; “Inside Dachau,” 162–63; “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” 162, 163–64 Allen, Chadwick, 2–3 Almi, A.: “Tsvishn indianer” (“Among Indians”), 14–16 Americana, 101, 106 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Washington, DC, Area Chapter, 172 American Colonization Society, 30 American Hebrew, 26, 31, 48, 52, 53 American Indian: confusion with Jew in Spanish colonial period, 9–10 American Indian artist, 98 American Indian chants, translation into Yiddish, 64 American Indian literary criticism, 4 American Indian objects, theft and reclamation of, 164 American Indians: brought to Europe for display, 93; and Jewish Left writers , 87–92, 111–16; and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 65; reading of as authentically American and as modernist , 16, 60, 65, 102; reconstitution of as imagist poet, 65; as subject of ethnological study, 60; and YiddishAmerican literary modernism, 64, 240 f index 73, 74–78, 84. See also Jewish-Indian engagement; ten-tribist theories, of American Indian origins American Israelite, 54 American modernism: connection with exiled artist, 69; critical discourse about national literature casting Jew against Indian, 62; fascination with Indian-poet, 17; and nationhood vs. internationalism, 61; project of remaking, 60; racial and cultural typologies, 16; reading of Indians as authentically American and as modernist, 16, 60, 65; reconstitution of Indian as imagist poet, 65; replacement of “race” with “culture” in 1920s, 61. See also nativist modernism ; Yiddish-American literary modernism American Scholar, 119 American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews, 32 Anderson, Sherwood, 62, 66, 84 Antelyes, Peter, 56 anthropology, and World’s fairs, 97 anti-immigration movement, 41 Antin, Mary: The Promised Land, 50, 59–60 anti-Semitism, 114, 149 Apess, William, 13; “An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man,” 34 Ararat (New York State), 21, 23; Noah’s plan for, 31–32 Ashkenazi immigrants to U.S., 13 Austin, Mary, 60, 73, 84, 91, 170; The American Rhythm, 69, 76, 77, 78, 121, 206n52; defense of Path of the Rainbow, 78; introduction to Path of the Rainbow, 76, 80; and irreconcilability of Jew and Indian, 107; “New York: Dictator of American criticism, 76–77, 206n55; “re-expression,” 73, 76, 77 Avery, Evelyn, 161 Back, Rachel Tzvia, 172; The Buffalo Poems, 174 Balieff, Nikita, 106 Barnard, Rita, 107, 210n10, 213n36 Barth, John, 130 Ben Israel, Menassah: Esperanca de Israel (The Hope of Israel), 10–13, 189n36 Benjamin, Walter, 94 Ben-Ur, Aviva, 237n1 Berenbaum, Michael, 165 Berger, Thomas, 130 Bernard-Donals, Michael, 165 Biale, David, 8, 17 Bibo, Solomon, 53 “Big Chief Dynamite,” 46–47, 48, 56 Black Elk Speaks, 127–29, 225n44 Black Power movement, 161 Blanberg, Nahum, 22 Blanchard, Tsvi, 179 Blazing Saddles, 58, 160, 198n62 blood memory, 2–3 Boas, Franz, 3, 6, 7, 97; complex relation to race, 186n10; “cultural relativism” program, 60 Bodenheim, Maxwell, 68, 205n33 Boyarin, Daniel, 176 Boyarin, Jonathan, 18, 176, 232n24 Brenner, Frédéric: Diaspora: Homelands in Exile, 179, 238n2 Brice, Fanny, 56, 200n73 Bright, John, 108 Brodkin, Karen, 17 Bronitsky, Gordon, 172 index f 241 Brooks, Mel, 58, 198n62 Brooks, Van Wyck, 60 Budick, Emily Miller, 149 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, 131 “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” 43, 45 “Buffalo dance,” 55 Burk, John Daily: Female Patriotism, or the Death of Joan of Arc, 27 Burroughs, William, 130 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 131, 160 Call It Sleep (Roth), 117–18; and book of Isaiah, 128–29; disappearance and rediscovery in 1960s, 118–19; influence of Walton on, 124–27; mysticism, 135–38; references to in Mercy of a Rude Stream, 143 Cantor, Eddie, 57 Capote, Truman, 130 Carvalho, Solomon Nunes de, 17, 21–22, 34–40; as an Indian, 37–38; creator of “lost photographs” of Fremont’s fifth expedition, 35, 197n49, 197n50; Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, 34–40; The Later Chiefs of the Utahs, 42; self-portrait of, 41; suggestion of Jewish-Mormon ancient kinship, 39 Casteel, Sarah Philips, 175 Castro, Michael: Interpreting the Indian: Twentieth-Century Poets and the Native-American, 129...