September/October 2004

Volume L No. 6

350th Anniversary of Jewish Settlement in North America: 1654-2004 EDITORIAL 2 An Urgent Note to Our Readers • Leo Haber ARTICLE 3 The American Jewish Condition After 350 Years • Henry L. Feingold REVIEW ESSAY 7 American Judaism: Response to Modernity • Leonard Dinnerstein 10 Jerome Charyn’s Early Broadway and its Jewish Luminaries • Joseph Triebwasser BIOGRAPHY 14 Marie Syrkin: Learning to Love America • Carole S. Kessner ARTS AND LETTERS 20 Contemporary American Jewish Writers and the Presence of the Past • Janet Burstein 24 The Orthodoxies of Chaim Potok • George Jochnowitz 26 Chaim Potok’s Final Fiction • Arthur Sainer RELIGION 29 On the Meaning of the Book of Jonah • Philip Stern MEMOIR 32 Being Them: A New York City Childhood • Julia Braun Kessler 36 Outpost Budapest 1973: An American in Israel • Michael A. Zimmerman FICTION 40 Leon’s Gifts • Milton Teichman POETRY 13 Kaddish for Maayan Naim • Charles Fishman 19 Ne’ilah • Marge Piercy 28 Turn, Turn, Turn • Lou Barrett 31 Thinking About Kafka • Sanford Pinsker 35 Song on Rosh Chodesh • Lou Barrett 39 Eden • Zvi A. Sesling 47 From Kozik to Kelly: A Prose Poem • I. Century BOOKS AND AUTHORS 45 Ziff: A Life? by Alan Lelchuk • Sanford Pinsker 46 Great Neck, by Jay Cantor • Leonard Quart