Preface
Introduction: two Shapiros: thoughts on poetry and secular Jewish culture
Ghosts of Yiddish; or, postvernacularity in Jewish American poetry
Charles Reznikoff: modernism, diaspora, and the problem of Jewish identity
Allen Grossman and the poetry of holiness
Michael Heller: between the sacred and the profane
Chana Bloch: surfaces and depths
"The darker wisdom of the Jews": Henry Weinfield's dialectical irony
Rachel Tzvia back: between Israel and the diaspora
Dark rabbis and secret Jews
Afterword: "diasporas of imperfection."