From Hester Street to Hollywood: the Jewish-American stage and screen

Yiddish origins and Jewish-American transformations / Sarah Blacher Cohen

Yiddish theater and American theater / Nahma Sandrow

Some intersections of Jews, music, and theater / Mark Slobin

Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker : blending the particular with the universal / June Sochen

Jew in stand-up comedy / Anthony Lewis

Elmer Rice, liberation, and the great ethnic question / Jules Chametzky

Clifford Odets and the Jewish context / R. Barid Shuman

Lillian Hellman : the first Jewish nun on Prytania Street / Bonnie Lyons

Ethnics and ethnicity in the plays of Arthur Miller / Enoch Brater

Paddy Chayefsky's Jews and Jewish dialogues / Leslie Field

Neil Simon's Jewish-style comedies / Daniel Walden

Jules Feiffer and the comedy of disenchantment / Stephen J. Whitfield

"Mental comedies" of Saul Bellow / Keith Opdahl

Jewish folk drama of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Sarah Blacher Cohen

Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen / Lawrence L. Langer

Woody Allen : the failure of the therapeutic / Mark Shechner

Mel Brooks and the cinema of exhaustion / Sanford Pinsker

Vanishing act : a typology of the Jew in the contemporary American film / Alan Spiegal.