Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
Contents
Introduction : adjusting to America -- Outsider in the old world, greenhorn in the new : Christopher Newman and David Levinsky -- Gastronomic nostalgia : Anzia Yezierska -- The claims of descent : immigrant cinema -- Haunted in the new world : Henry Roth -- To make "a Jew" : projecting antisemitism in post-war America -- Memory and repression : Goldberg variations -- The "Jewish opera" : Saul Bellow and other Jewish sons -- Epilogue : nostalgia and 1950s popular culture.
