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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Popularizing Judaism -- Postwar Stories In 1940s America -- Changing Attitudes During The Uneasy 1940s -- Becoming An American Religion -- The World Around The Books -- Religion-and The Need To Have One -- Religion's Midcentury Moment -- The Midcentury Jewish Middlebrow Moment -- Two Genres At Work -- The Power Of Midcentury Jewish Middlebrow Culture -- 1 From Race To Religion And The Challenge Of Antisemitism -- When Antisemitism Was Part Of The Novel -- Not Quite Religion Overcoming Race -- Striving To Move Beyond Negativity -- A Fake Science To Fuel The Fire Of Bigotry -- A Discourse Of Illness And Disability -- Thinking With Wolfson In The 1950s -- Moving Toward Pride -- 2 The Roots Of 1940s Anti-antisemitism Fiction -- Writing Against The Tide Of Antisemitism -- A Choice For Gentiles -- 3 When Women Made Anti-antisemitism Fiction Popular -- Hobson's Journey To Anti-antisemitism -- Reclaiming Moral Indignation -- The Great Jewish Book Corresponding To Strange Fruit -- From Antisemitism To Anti-racism -- 4 The Limits Of Anti-antisemitism Literature Achieving Jewish Identity Within A White Racial Order -- Learning About Race While Un-learning Jewishness As Race -- Jew And The Average American -- Propaganda Of The Most Artful Kind -- Acceptance Within Reason -- The Gentleman's Agreement Of American Religion -- Connecting Jews And Others -- 5 How Basic Is Basic Judaism? -- Writing About Jewish Religion -- This Is The Kind Of Book That Should Sell Forever. -- Transitioning From Problem To Religion -- Coming To Judaism From The Outside -- The Irony Of The Genre -- A Judaism For Main Street America 6 Philip Bernstein And The 1950s Religious Revival -- A New Popularity For Judaism -- A Mirror To The Middle Class -- Religion In Life -- 7 Life's Old-fashioned Jews -- An Unexpected Win -- Like An Essay On Protestantism Featuring The Amish -- 8 Why I Choose To B