Israel through the Jewish-American imagination: a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995

Introduction: Israel, the foremost preoccupation of the American Jew

Meyer Levin against the grain: A Zionist writer takes on America's pre-Zionist Zeitgeist

Embattled uris: A look back at Exodus

Saul Bellow's Middle East problem

Hugh Nissenson's Isreal: In search of a viable Jewish ethos in Israel

Zionism in Chaim Potok's The Chosen, Messianic complications, and current crises

Philip Roth's nerve in The Counterlife and Operation Shylock: A confession: "Jewish Mischief" and the post-colonial critique

Anne Roiphe's angst: A Jewish-American feminist looks at Israel

Tova Rich's daring vision; or, the feminization of Israel's penitent

Conclusion.