But after 1948, a feeling of emptiness and of searching for new values was leading to experiments in exploring the Jewish past.

The stark contrast between past and present is accentuated by street names that evoke the Jewish past.

Its walls and archways speak of and to the Jewish past.

That alone was an important step for someone whose life had been lived virtually detached from a Jewish past.

Are any remnants of the Jewish past still left, and if so, how can one arrange to see them?

In its churches, of all places, Harlem reveals its Jewish past.

The Jewish past is not what it used to be.

Why a movement to reclaim the American Jewish past now?

The Jewish past is not only for us; it is also the basis for our future.

Is there enough left to make Jews feel they can find a link to a Jewish past?