Leaving Europe / Ruth Wisse -- Welcome to the Lower East Side / Allan Nadler -- Labor / Paul Berman -- Film / J. Hoberman -- Yiddish theater /Caraid O'Brien -- Diaspora / Ilan Stavans -- The Holocaust / Deborah Lipstadt -- Israel / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Upward into American life / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sports / Roger Kahn -- The arts / Leon Wieseltier -- Politics / Nathan Glazer -- Jewish identity / Paul Zakrzewski -- Revival / J. J. Goldberg.