Haunted in the New World

Maps the affective landscape of Jewish American culture. This book offers a genealogy of the emotions - shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget - that organized 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Adjusting to America 1. Outsider in the Old World, Greenhorn in the New: Christopher Newman and David Levinsky 2. Gastronomic Nostalgia: Anzia Yezierska 3. The Claims of Descent: Immigrant Cinema 4. Haunted in the New World: Henry Roth 5. To Make "a Jew": Projecting Antisemitism in Post-War America 6. Memory and Repression: Goldberg Variations 7. The "Jewish Opera": Saul Bellow and Other Jewish Sons Epilogue: Nostalgia and 1950s Popular Culture Notes Bibliography Index