Carole S. Kessner is professor emerita of comparative studies at SUNY, Stony Brook. She was the 1994 recipient of the Marie Syrkin Fellowship.

“Finally, Zionist thinker Marie Syrkin gets the recognition she deserves. . . . It is not sentimental overpraise to say that Marie Syrkin deserves a place at the roundtable of great intellects who helped shape contemporary Jewish-American liberalism.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IChapter 1. Marie’s BirthrightChapter 2. A Bronx AdolescenceChapter 3. That Fabulous Summer: MauriceChapter 4. Elopement and AnnulmentChapter 5. Marriage, Motherhood, and TragedyChapter 6. David, Divorce, and the Death of NachmanChapter 7. A New Life: CharlesPART IIChapter 8. An Unorthodox Marriage: Palestine and HollywoodChapter 9. At the Nexus of the “Jewish Problem”Chapter 10. On the Jewish Frontier: The Twenty-First Zionist CongressChapter 11. The War, the White Paper, and the Rescue of the JewsChapter 12. Wartime Horrors: Personal UnhappinessChapter 13. Postwar Projects: DP Camps, Blessed is the Match, IsraelChapter 14. Academia at Last: The Brandeis YearsEpilogueNotesIndex

Carole S. Kessner is professor emerita of comparative studies at SUNY, Stony Brook. She was the 1994 recipient of the Marie Syrkin Fellowship.

“Finally, Zionist thinker Marie Syrkin gets the recognition she deserves. . . . It is not sentimental overpraise to say that Marie Syrkin deserves a place at the roundtable of great intellects who helped shape contemporary Jewish-American liberalism.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IChapter 1. Marie’s BirthrightChapter 2. A Bronx AdolescenceChapter 3. That Fabulous Summer: MauriceChapter 4. Elopement and AnnulmentChapter 5. Marriage, Motherhood, and TragedyChapter 6. David, Divorce, and the Death of NachmanChapter 7. A New Life: CharlesPART IIChapter 8. An Unorthodox Marriage: Palestine and HollywoodChapter 9. At the Nexus of the “Jewish Problem”Chapter 10. On the Jewish Frontier: The Twenty-First Zionist CongressChapter 11. The War, the White Paper, and the Rescue of the JewsChapter 12. Wartime Horrors: Personal UnhappinessChapter 13. Postwar Projects: DP Camps, Blessed is the Match, IsraelChapter 14. Academia at Last: The Brandeis YearsEpilogueNotesIndex

Carole S. Kessner is professor emerita of comparative studies at SUNY, Stony Brook. She was the 1994 recipient of the Marie Syrkin Fellowship.

“Finally, Zionist thinker Marie Syrkin gets the recognition she deserves. . . . It is not sentimental overpraise to say that Marie Syrkin deserves a place at the roundtable of great intellects who helped shape contemporary Jewish-American liberalism.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART IChapter 1. Marie’s BirthrightChapter 2. A Bronx AdolescenceChapter 3. That Fabulous Summer: MauriceChapter 4. Elopement and AnnulmentChapter 5. Marriage, Motherhood, and TragedyChapter 6. David, Divorce, and the Death of NachmanChapter 7. A New Life: CharlesPART IIChapter 8. An Unorthodox Marriage: Palestine and HollywoodChapter 9. At the Nexus of the “Jewish Problem”Chapter 10. On the Jewish Frontier: The Twenty-First Zionist CongressChapter 11. The War, the White Paper, and the Rescue of the JewsChapter 12. Wartime Horrors: Personal UnhappinessChapter 13. Postwar Projects: DP Camps, Blessed is the Match, IsraelChapter 14. Academia at Last: The Brandeis YearsEpilogueNotesIndex