Jews of Brooklyn Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Putting on Your Best Face: Brooklyn Jewish Studio Photography, 1881-1924	21
	First Synagogues: Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus and Union Temple	29
	First Synagogues: The First 144 Years of the Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes (The Kane Street Synagogue)	32
	The Early Years of the Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn	40
	Syrian Jewish Life	44
	Tastes of Home in Three Brooklyn Groceries	52
	Brooklyn as Refuge: Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust	57
	Notes on the Celebration of Purim in Williamsburg	61
	Holy Rolling: Making Sense of Baking Matzo	72
	New Synagogues: Rabbi Ellen Lippmann Talks about Congregation Kolot Chayeinu	78
	Waves upon the Sand: Jewish Immigrant Life in Brighton Beach	83
	The New Wave from Russia	107
	A Williamsburg Childhood in the 1930s and 1940s	112
	Sephardic in Williamsburg	115
	Brownsville and Irving Levine: The Making of a Jewish Liberal Activist	120
	Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in Brownsville, 1930s-1950s	129
	My Mother's Borough Park	137
	A Hasidic Woman in Borough Park	139
	Crown Heights in the 1950s	143
	Cruising Eastern Parkway in Search of Yiddishkayt	153
	Growing Up in Interwar Bensonhurst	156
	The Brooklyn-American Dream	166
	From Brownsville to Park Slope: An Interview with Simon Dinnerstein	169
	From Flatbush to SoHo: An Interview with Ivan Karp	173
	Mazel Tov! Klezmer Music and Simchas in Brooklyn 1910 to the Present	179
	Klezmer Revived: Dave Tarras Plays Again	186
	New Jewish Music in the Orthodox Community	190
	Bad Jews: Jewish Criminals from Brooklyn	195
	A Brooklyn Accent: Borough Park in the 1940s	198
	Seltzer Man	200
	Candy Stores and Egg Creams	202
	Street Games in Brooklyn	206
	Poultry in Motion: The Jewish Atonement Ritual of Kapores	209
	Suits and Souls: Trying to Tell a Jew: When You See One in Crown Heights	214
	Brooklyn Yiddish Radio, 1925-46	227
	Jewish Commitment and Continuity in Interwar Brooklyn	231
	"A Home Though Away from Home": Brooklyn Jews and Interwar Children's Summer Camps	242
	Blacks, Jews, and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn's Junior High School 258: A Cold War Story	250
	A Tour of Jewish Coney Island Avenue	264
	Dr. Alvin I. Schiff Talks about Jewish Education	279
	Rabbi Robert Kaplan Talks about Changing Institutions	282
	Radically Right: The Jewish Press	286
	"Across the Great Divide": Alfred Kazin and Daniel Fuchs	295
	Approximations Made with Line: An Interview with Phillip Lopate	300
	Cyber-Spirituality: An Interview with Binyamin Jolkovsky	306
	Thoroughly Modern Orthodox: An Interview with Rina Goldberg	308
	Danny Kaye: Brooklyn Tummler	311
	The Doctor and the Comedian	318
	Scenes from a Superstar's Childhood	322
	"That's Entertainment!"	323
	"Play Ball!" Jewish Athletes from Brooklyn	325
	On Wisconsin	327
	Knish Reminiscence	329
	Flatbush Memories in the Florida Sun	332
	Are We There Yet? One Family's Brooklyn Diaspora	336
	Time Line of Selected Jewish Brooklyn Events or People	343
	Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading	349
	List of Contributors	353