Images of the "new Jew" in postwar culture : building on the legacies of antisemitism and the Holocaust -- The United States and the founding of Israel : a particularist state with a universal mission -- Views of the new Jewish state : the "Americanization" of Israel -- The 1950s religious revival and "Christianizing" the image of Israel and Jews -- Acceptance and assimilation : Jews in 1950s American culture and politics -- The cold war, Suez, and beyond : cultural images and changing American-Israeli relations in the late 1950s.