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Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged 'Judeo-Christian' heritage.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: Cleveland and Its Jews: New Perspectives on Communal History -- 1. "A Link in the Great American Chain": The Evolution of Jewish Orthodoxy in Cleveland to 1940 -- 2. Jewish Philanthropy in Cleveland to 1990 -- 3. Abraham Hayyim Friedland and the Context, Structures, and Content of Jewish Education -- 4. Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland -- 5. Ethnic Identity and Local Politics: Abba Hillel Silver as a Community Leader and International Politician in Cleveland, 1940–1950 -- 6. "She Will Be the Mary Poppins We Have Been Searching For": The Rise of Feminism and Organizational Change in the Cleveland Section of the National Council of Jewish Women -- 7. Trepidation, Tolerance, and Turnover: Jewish-Black Relations in Cleveland Neighborhoods, 1920–1960 -- 8. Jewish Suburbanization and Jewish Presence in the "City without Jews" -- 9. Suburban Temple and the Creation of Postwar American Judaism -- 10. People-to- People: Cleveland's Jewish Community and the Exodus of Soviet Jews -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index