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In Their Own Image - New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture (Paperback)
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In Their Own Image - New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture (Paperback)
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The Jazz Age of the 1920s, centered in New York City, is an era
remembered for illegal liquor, innovative music and dance styles,
and burgeoning ideas of social equality. It was also the period
during which second-generation Jews began to emerge as a
significant demographic in the city. ""In Their Own Image""
examines the growing cultural visibility of Jewish life amid this
vibrant scene. From the vaudeville routines of Fanny Brice, Eddie
Cantor, George Jessel, and Sophie Tucker, to the slew of Broadway
comedies about Jewish life - such as the phenomenally popular
Abie's ""Irish Rose"" - to the silent films that showed immigrant
families struggling to leave the ghetto, images and representations
of Jews became staples of inter war popular culture. Through the
performing arts, Jews expressed highly ambivalent feelings about
their identification with Jewish and American cultures. Ted Merwin
shows how they became American by producing and consuming not
images of another group, but self-made images of themselves. As a
result, they humanized Jewish stereotypes, softened anti-Semitic
attitudes, and laid the groundwork for Jewish comedians from Mel
Brooks to Billy Crystal. A lively and entertaining look at the role
that popular culture can play in promoting the acculturation of an
ethnic group, ""In Their Own Image"" both enhances our
understanding of American Jewish history and provides a model for
the study of other groups and their integration into society.
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