Omri Asscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His translations into Hebrew include Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt and Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language.

Introduction: Translating across the Homeland-Diaspora Divide
1. The Zionist Transformation
2. Ethical Conundrums
3. Israeli Jewishness for American Eyes
4. Jewish American Literature Makes Aliyah
5. "Judaism in Translation"
Conclusion: Entangled Self-Perceptions