Includes bibliographical references and index.

Back to the future: is it 1938 again? / Malcolm Hoenlein -- Lessons from the past: hopes for the future / Leonard Fein -- What is living and what is dead in Jewish twentieth-century history? / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Can we choose politically between right and left? / Michael Walzer -- Echoes of 1938 / Alan Dershowitz -- The case for bombing Iran / Norman Podhoretz -- The right of world Jewry to criticize Israel / Moshe Halbertal -- The ethical limits and ways of criticizing Israel / Blu Greenberg -- Diaspora criticism and advocacy / Jeff Helmreich -- Saving American Jwery: demography, politics, and destiny / Jack Wertheimer -- 1938 as a paradigm / Lawrence Grossman -- From hatred to love: is it good or bad for the Jews? / Samuel Heilman -- Facing Armageddon: evangelicals and the Jews / Yechiel Eckstein -- Social justice and Jewish survival / David Saperstein -- Europe's "terrible transformation?" / David Pryce-Jones -- If Israel ceased to exist / Hillel Halkin -- Challenges and dangers facing American Jewry / David Harris -- Dilemmas of Jewish survival as seen through the prism of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Susannah Heschel.