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1 CONTENTS Foreword by Steven B. Nasatir... xii Preface: Michael Kotzin and the Struggle for Jewish Legitimacy by Yossi Klein Halevi... xv The Past As Prologue: By Way of Introduction... 1 Visiting the Old World in a Time of Flux As the Flood Gates Open: A Visit to the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary (1990) Letter from Prague: Time of Renewal (1993) Then and Now: A Visit to Today s Germany (1993) Confronting the Holocaust Fifty Years Later: Reflections on a Visit to Lithuania and Poland (1997) Visiting Andalucía (2011) A Family Visit to Odessa (2013) The Terrorist Threat at Home and Abroad Halting the Madness of Hamas (1996) Terrorism Today and the Chicago Connection (1996) Israel Not the Main Issue in Terrorists Hatred of America (2001) War Memories among School Children (2002) Tolerance and Reality in Collision (2002) Reflections on the Mumbai Massacre from Chicago s North Side (2009) Anti-Semitism Old and New: From Farrakhan to Delegitimization Duke of Hazard (1991) Numbers Game: Statistics and Anti-Semitism (1993) v

2 Louis Farrakhan s Anti-Semitism: A Look at the Record (1994) Confronting the Farrakhan Problem (1995) Farrakhan Once More (1998) Farrakhan s False Jews Rhetoric as Age-Old Bigotry (2006) Louis Farrakhan At It Again (2010) Letter from Chicago: Ifs Ands and Butz (1997) Anti-Semitism Reborn (2003) The New Anti-Semitism: Sources, Symbols, and Significance (2004) The Continuing Challenge of Anti-Semitism (2005) A New World of Anti-Semitism (2006) Engaging the Battle against the New Anti-Semitism (2009) The Language of the New Anti-Semitism (2010) The State of Anti-Semitism: Yom Kippur Musings (2012) Defending Israel in the Community, in the Media, and on Campus vi Orwellian Reading of the Middle East Conflict (2000) Arab Leaders Must Abandon Pipe Dreams (2001) Covering the Coverage: Israel, the Media, and the Jewish Community (2002) Israel s Enemies Waging a Verbal Assault (2002) Terrorist s Bomb Shatters Israel s Glimpse of Tranquility (2003) New Policies for New Problems on Campus (2003) Arafat Never Abandoned Goal of Eliminating Israel (2004) The Withdrawal from Gaza (2005) Sights Set on the Israel Lobby (2007) New Era is Born (2007) Rallies Promote End of Israel, Not Conflict (2009)...204

3 Pictures at an Exhibition: Art Galleries, the Academy, and Anti-Israel Polemics (2010) The Shaping of the American Mind (2012) Politics and the Modern Language Association (2014) MLA Resolution: What s It All About? (2014) Understanding Israel As It Really Is: Brand Israel and Israeli Studies The Role of the Organized Jewish Community in the Brand Israel Process (2006) Branding Israel (2007) The Jewish Community and the Ivory Tower: An Urgent Need for Israel Studies (2004) The State of Israel Studies: An Emerging Academic Field (2013) Jews and Others: Relationships with African Americans and -Catholics Doing the Right Thing: Reflections on Spike Lee s New Movie and on the Cokely Affair One Year Later (1989) The Jewish Community and the Domestic Agenda (1992) Legacy of Black Writer May Help Black-Jewish Relations (1994) Reflections on a Journey to Israel with Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1995) Bernardin Navigated Life by Word and Example (1996) The Catholic-Jewish Scholars Dialogue of Chicago: A Model of Interreligious Dialogue (2005) Facing the Unresolved Issue in Interfaith Dialogue (2005) Religion and the Press: A Jewish Community Perspective (2005) vii

4 Afterword to A Legacy of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lectures (2012) Remembering Jamil Abu Toameh, a True Teacher (2009) Framing the Communal Agenda and Advancing Jewish Peoplehood Remembering Daniel Elazar (2000) Local Community Relations Councils and Their National Body (2002) GA 2006: One People, One Destiny (2006) Spreading the Word on Jewish Peoplehood (2007) Innovation and Tradition: Finding the Middle Ground (2012) A Call to Forge a Zionist Narrative for Our Time (2012) Reflections on Literature, Film, and Drama: Roth, Bellow, and Others Looking at Roth Looking at Roth (1989) The Plot Against America (2005) Lessons for Jews from the Rushdie Affair (1989) European Films Look Back at Nazi Era (1992) Rodney King Is Center Stage in Sellars Merchant (1995) Lanzmann s Newest Film Probes the Soul of Israel Defense Forces (1995) Back to the Future: An Israeli Novelist s Invitation to Discovery (1999) Remembering Saul Bellow (2005) Munich As a Post-Zionist Tale (2006) Words to Remember Him by: Memories of Richard G. Stern (2013) Jack Garfein: Strange, Wild, Triumphant (2013) viii

5 Utopia Deferred: A Powerful Look at the Divisions in Israel in the Decades after the Six-Day War (2013) A Look from the Left: Underground to Palestine by I.F. Stone (2012) From Chicago to the Yishuv: A Reading of Meyer Levin s In Search: An Autobiography (Forthcoming) Postscript Acknowledgments ix

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