William M. Brinner is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Volume 2 of The History of al-Tabari titled Prophets and Patriarchs, also published by SUNY Press. Moses Rischin is Professor of History at San Francisco State University and Director of the Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Like All the Nations?
Moses Rischin
Part I. Youth and Education
1. San Francisco-Oakland: The Native Son
Fred Rosenbaum
2. Cincinnati: The Earlier and Later Years
Marc Lee Raphael
Part II. New York: Vortex or Void?
3. A New American Judaism
Deborah Dash Moore
4. Between "Priest and Prophet"
Arthur A. Goren
5. Magnes: Zionism in Judaism
Evyatar Friesel
Part III. The First American Zionists
6. Two Paths to Zion: Magnes and Stephen S. Wise
Melvin I. Urofsky
7. Doing Good in Palestine: Magnes and Henrietta Szold
Joan Dash
8. Golda Meir and Other Americans
Marie Syrkin
Part IV. The Hebrew University
9. The Idea of a Jewish University
David Biale
10. The Appeal of the Incorrigible Idealist
Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
11. Gown and Town
Arnold J. Band
Part V. Arabs and Jews
12. The School of Oriental Studies: A Memoir
S. D. Gottein
13. He Looked Out on Zion from Atop Mount Scopus and Dreamt of Peace: A Memoir
Gabriel Stern
14. The Arab-Jewish Dilemma
Bernard Wasserstein
Abbreviations of Document Sources
Notes
Index