Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Lewis Fried -- In the beginning : American-Jewish fiction 1880-1930 / David Martin Fine -- American-Jewish fiction, 1930-1945 / Lewis Fried -- American-Jewish fiction since 1945 / Bonnie K. Lyons -- The greening of American-Jewish drama / Ellen Schiff -- American-Jewish poetry : an overview / R. Barbara Gitenstein -- Yiddish dreams in America / Joseph C. Landis -- American Yiddish literary criticism / Hannah Berliner Fischthal -- A question of tradition : women poets in Yiddish / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Makers of a modern American-Jewish theology / Arnold Jacob Wolf -- Zionist ideology in America / David Polish -- American-Jewish autobiography, 1912 to the present / Steven J. Rubin -- Images of America in American-Jewish fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Eastern Europe in American-Jewish writing / Asher Z. Milbauer -- Shadows of identity : German-Jewish and American-Jewish literature : a comparative study / Gerhshon Shaked -- Fiction of the Holocaust / Dorothy Seidman Bilik -- The Holocaust and its historiography : the major texts / Saul Friedman -- American-Jewish fiction : the Germanic reception / Sepp L. Tiefenthaler -- Guide to European bibliography / Sepp L. Tiefenthaler.