| Preface | |
| General Introduction | |
| Jewish Business | p. 4 |
| A Capitalist Triumph | p. 15 |
| The Goldwater Story | p. 22 |
| Tel Aviv, 1939 | p. 25 |
| Between Two Worlds | p. 28 |
| Father and Son | p. 32 |
| Mottel Gets a Job | p. 40 |
| A Writer's Beginning | p. 44 |
| The Three-Star Canadian Bar Mitzvah | p. 48 |
| Sex and Money in Newark | p. 53 |
| Marriage in Medieval Cairo | p. 58 |
| The Story of a Marriage | p. 59 |
| Jack and Sadie | p. 64 |
| An Intellectual Couple Starts Out | p. 67 |
| The Rattle of a Simple Man | p. 73 |
| The Struggle for Survival | p. 78 |
| Why Do Jews Like Chinese Food? | p. 80 |
| Why I Did Not Become a Professor | p. 85 |
| Dying and Burial | p. 89 |
| The Laws of Mourning - The Shulchan Orech | p. 92 |
| Sitting Shiva | p. 92 |
| A Good Mother Remembered | p. 102 |
| The Essentials of Biblical Judaism - Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Job, Psalms | p. 108 |
| The Exile from Eden | p. 111 |
| The Day of Atonement | p. 114 |
| Talmudic Angelology - The Babylonian Talmud | p. 116 |
| Kabbalah - The Zohar | p. 117 |
| Making a Golem | p. 120 |
| Sectarian Conflict | p. 121 |
| Wisdom Derives from Many Sources | p. 122 |
| The Messiah Has Come! | p. 122 |
| The Essentials of Hasidism | p. 124 |
| The Sayings of Rabbi Nachman | p. 129 |
| Reform Judaism | p. 131 |
| Neo-Orthodoxy | p. 133 |
| Creative Life-Force Among Jews | p. 134 |
| Transactional Theology | p. 136 |
| The Meaning of the Covenant | p. 137 |
| The Poets' Laments | p. 142 |
| A Novelist's Insight | p. 145 |
| Auschwitz | p. 148 |
| The Final Solution | p. 152 |
| The Elimination of Hungarian Jewry | p. 155 |
| Jewish Collaborators with the Germans | p. 160 |
| Decline and Fall in Lodz | p. 167 |
| Exile from Alexandria | p. 174 |
| The Martyrdom of Colonel Marcus | p. 178 |
| 1492 | p. 182 |
| Masada | p. 189 |
| The Alexandrian Sage | p. 196 |
| Medieval Merchants | p. 199 |
| The Jewish Town | p. 199 |
| Government and Law in the Shtetl | p. 208 |
| Shtetl Derivatives | p. 212 |
| The Lower East Side | p. 213 |
| A Reconstituted Life | p. 220 |
| I Never Prayed with My Father | p. 226 |
| The Return to Zion | p. 228 |
| Seventy Years Later | p. 234 |
| The Geniza World | p. 239 |
| The Orientals | p. 244 |
| The Talmudic Rabbis Give Sex Lessons | p. 254 |
| Sex, Marriage, and Birth Control | p. 255 |
| A Jewish Businesswoman in the Seventeenth Century | p. 259 |
| A Hasidic Baby Girl | p. 263 |
| Under Hitler's Shadow | p. 266 |
| The New American | p. 268 |
| The Market | p. 276 |
| The Activist | p. 282 |
| A Neo-Orthodox Feminist | p. 285 |
| The Hollywood Image of American Jewish Women | p. 294 |
| A New York Princess in Nazi-Land | p. 303 |
| Are the Jews Genetically Superior? | p. 312 |
| Judaism versus Medieval Christianity and Islam | p. 313 |
| The Perpetual Superiority of Israel | p. 316 |
| A Jewish Prince in Medieval Baghdad | p. 318 |
| The Great American Retailers | p. 319 |
| Hollywood Moguls | p. 324 |
| Chicago Jew Wins Nobel Prize for Literature | p. 331 |
| Warsaw, April 1943: Germans versus Jews | p. 335 |
| The Romantic Image of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt | p. 345 |
| Victory | p. 346 |
| Elation | p. 354 |
| Jerusalem the Golden | p. 356 |
| The Clan | p. 360 |
| Stalin's Jews | p. 364 |
| Moses - The Haggadah | p. 377 |
| Solomon - The Haggadah | p. 379 |
| Akiba - The Haggadah | p. 380 |
| Maimonides | p. 387 |
| Dreyfus | p. 391 |
| Einstein | p. 396 |
| Brandeis | p. 406 |
| Frankfurter | p. 409 |
| Herzl | p. 415 |
| Weizmann | p. 422 |
| Ben-Gurion | p. 427 |
| Ahad Ha'Am | p. 430 |
| Demonology | p. 436 |
| The Satmar Rebbe | p. 439 |
| Black Hats on the West Bank | p. 442 |
| Monastic Zionism | p. 449 |
| New Age Judaism | p. 454 |
| The Fascist Turn | p. 455 |
| Sociology | p. 460 |
| Social Anthropology | p. 461 |
| Psychoanalytic Theory | p. 468 |
| Spinoza's Rationalism | p. 472 |
| The Rise and Fall of Yiddish | p. 475 |
| Reconstructionism | p. 477 |
| Epilogue: The Coming of the Messiah | p. 479 |
| Author Index | p. 481 |
| Copyright Acknowledgments | p. 483 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 488 |
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