How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of thisfascinating study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. KenKoltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America.His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing, JosephSoloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's fascination with objects inThe Sabbath, and material identity in the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilithmagazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking approach to anunderstanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to Americanculture.