Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction : Jews and the American soul
  • I. One nation under stress, divisible : Jewish immigrants and the national psyche. 1. Jews and the psychodynamics of American life
  • II. The moral universe of the Jews. 2. Benjamin Franklin in Hebrew : the musar sage of Philadelphia
  • 3. Jews and the crisis of the psyche
  • 4. Freud and Adler : the rise of Jewish psychoanalytic moralism
  • III. Jewish morality and the psychological shift of American culture, 1890-1945. 5. Popular psychology : the great American synthesis of religion and science
  • 6. Jewish psychological evangelism : a collective biography of the first generation
  • 7. The moronic immigrant and the neurotic Jew : Jews and American perception of intelligence, personality, and race
  • 8. The specter of the mob : Jews and the battle for the American unconscious
  • IV. Peace of mind : Judaism and the therapeutic polemics of postwar America. 9. Rabbi Liebman and the psychic pain of the World War II generation
  • 10. Peace of mind : a new Jewish gospel of love
  • 11. Clare Boothe Luce and the Catholic-Jewish clash over Freud in America
  • V. Jews and the American search for meaning, 1950-2000. 12. Jews and the creation of American humanism
  • 13. Joyce Brothers : the Jewish woman as psychologist of suburban America
  • 14. Holocaust, Hasidism, suffering, redemption.