I. From Haskala to National Renaissance: 1. The eternal people / Perets Smolenskin; 2. Jews as a spiritual (cultural-historical) nation among political nations / Simon Dubnov; 3. The Jewish Renaissance movement and Jewish autonomy / Nathan Birnbaum; 4. Paths that lead away from Yidishkayt / I.L. Peretz -- II. Socialism and the Question of Jewish Peoplehood: 5. A Jew to Jews and why only Yiddish? / Chaim Zhitlowsky; 6. The worldwide Jewish nation / Vladimir Davidovich Medem; 7. Jewish autonomy yesterday and today / Jacob Lestschinsky; 8. The founding tasks of kultur-lige and the kultur-lige / The Kultur-Lige -- III. Preservation and Reconstruction in the Republics: 9. Democracy versus the melting-pot: a study of American nationality / Horace M. Kallen; 10. The future of Judaism / Mordecai M. Kaplan; 11. A basis for Jewish consciousness / RenĂ¢e Hirschler; 12. What is Jewish tradition? / Avrom Golomb; 13. Is America exile or home? we must begin to build for permanence / Israel Knox -- Epilogue: Jerusalem and Babylon / Simon Rawidowicz