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Index by Subject A Abbott and Costello, 113 Abie Kabibble, 31 abortion, 66 Abraham Lincoln Brigades, 97 Abulafia, Abraham, 153 Abyssinian Jews, 167 adultery, 49 Afghanistan, 114 African Americans, 6, 21, 49, 80, 86, 105, 121–22, 132, 138, 140, 145, 161 Alaska, 167 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 93, 122 American West, 36, 52–53 anarchism, 58 Anne Frank, 70 anthologies, 175–76 anthropologists, 84 Anti-Defamation League, 122 anti-Semitic stereotypes, 13 anti-Semitism, 3, 6, 24, 28, 29–30, 52, 54–55, 58, 65, 79, 113, 114, 124, 130, 146, 160, 171–72 Arbeter Tsaytung, 19 Artef, 30 Asian Americans, 139–40 assassination, 105 Atlantic Monthly, 164 B Baltimore, 21, 26–27 Bar Kokhba, 103 Barnard College, 115 Barondess, Joseph, 17 Beirut, 104 Benjamin, Richard, 76 Bergson, Henri, 109 Berkeley, California, 168 Berle, Milton, 145 Berlin, 33, 131 Bernstein, Carl, 119 Bernstein, Leonard, 117 bestsellers, 72 bibliographies, 174–75 “Bintel Brief,” 25, 43, 95 Bond, James, 107 Book-of-the-Month Club, 69 Borsht Belt, 105, 137, 145–46 Boston University, 155 Boston, Massachusetts, 62, 71 boxing, 19 Brando, Marlon, 52 Brazil, 67 British Jews, 38, 131 Broadway musicals, 75 Bronx, the, New York, 107 Brooklyn, New York, 45, 59–60, 62, 97, 105, 160, 120, 133–34, 143, 169 Brooks, Mel, 52 Brown University, 146 Bruce, Lenny, 105–06 Bruriah, 163 Buchenwald, 102 Buddhism, 160 Buenos Aires, 148 Buffalo, 161–62 Bukharan Jews, 150, 170 C Cagney, James, 46 California, 37, 51, 151, 160–61 Cambodia, 113 Canada, 9, 161 cantors, 22, 153, 172 capital punishment, 95 Carlebach, Shlomo, 149 Castro, Fidel, 154 Catholic school, 150 Catholicism, 20, 138, 139, 159; Catskills Institute, 146 Catskills, the, 111, 145–46, 168, 173 Cerf, Bennett, 1 Chabad-Lubavitch, 101, 135 Chagall, Marc, 73, 166 Chaim Potok Literary Award, 163 Charleston, South Carolina, 148 chess, 167 American Jewish Fiction 200 201 Index by Subject Chicago, Illinois, 41–42, 49, 66, 68, 70, 154–55, 169 children’s literature, 93, 117 Chinese Americans, 6, 120–21, 104, 139–40 Choate, 113 Christian Science, 36, 72 Christianity, 3, 6, 15, 20, 33, 50, 53, 58–59, 60, 67, 68, 71, 72, 92, 137, 154, 155, 171 Christmas, 23, 132 Civil War, 13–14, 148 Classics Illustrated, 146 Cleveland, Ohio, 38, 57, 88 Cohen, Rabbi Henry, 139 Cohen, Sasha Baron, 157 Cold War, 101, 158 Colonial America, 67 Columbia University, 68, 95, 135 comic books, 17, 111–12, 146–47, 151–52 comic strips, 28, 31 Commentary, 93, 115, 156 Communism, 35, 38–39, 58, 61, 74, 78, 85 concentration camps, 77, 96, 129 Coney Island, 65 Conservative Judaism, 7, 163 conversion, 19, 139–40, 149 cookbooks, 100, 119 Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 105 Crypto-Jews, 67, 134, 154–55 Cuba, 5, 154–55, 168 Curious George, 10 D Dada, 131 Dangerfield, Rodney, 145 Dartmouth College, 51 David, Larry, 80, 126 Day, Doris, 46 De Niro, Robert, 160 Dearborn Independent, The, 89 Demjanjuk, John, 129–30 Dennis the Menace, 76 Detroit, Michigan, 89–90 Dewey, John, 29 Di Yunge (The Youth), 53 DiCaprio, Leonardo, 160 Disneyland, 95 Disraeli, Benjamin, 106 Dole, Bob, 108 Dora the Explorer, 169 Dorman, Joseph, 115 Dresden, 157 Dreyfus, Alfred, 106 Dybbuk, 87, 116–17, 123 E Earhart, Amelia, 162 East Bedford, Massachusetts, 83 Eddy, Mary Baker, 72 Edgar Award, 82 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 77, 116, 117, 163, 179 Egypt, 151 Elijah the Prophet, 138 Elkies, Noam, 115 Ellis Island, 138 Elman, Mischa, 14 Ephron, Henry and Phoebe, 120 Epstein, Theo, 160 Esperanto, 167 Evangelical Christianity, 137, 155 F Fallingwater, 169 Farahani, Ramin, 151 farming, 52, 97 Father Coughlin, 89 feminism, 108, 110–11, 149 Filipino Americans, 167 Ford, Henry, 89 Ford, Luke, 144 Forverts, 18, 25, 73, 85, 95, 164 Forward, The, see Forverts France, 161 Frankfurt School, 172 Frankish Jews, 167 Freiheit, 85 Freud, Sigmund, 34 Freudianism, 44, 57, 69, 74 furniture, 22, 41 174 G Galveston, Texas, 138 gangs, 30, 45, 59 garment industry, 25, 40, 47–48, 58–59, 143 Gere, Richard, 153 German Jews, 3, 26, 33–34, 34–35, 41, 47, 53–54, 131, 138–39, 150 Germany, 3, 53–54, 104 Gestalt therapy, 64 Gödel, Kurt, 116 golem, 123, 128–29, 141–42, 147, 152 Grand Rapids, Michigan, 88 Granta, 166 graphic novels, 111–12, 146–47 Great Depression, 42, 57, 66, 109 Greeks, 60–61 Greenberg, Hank, 89 Greenwich Village, 40, 82 Grey, Jennifer, 146 grocery stores, 58, 64, 84, 118, 140 Guardian First Book Prize, 157 Giuliani...

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