Jazz Age Jews / / Michael Alexander.
By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance mor...
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Alexander, Michael, author. Jazz Age Jews / Michael Alexander. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERLUDE:Jazz Age Economics -- PART I. "Biznez Iz Biznez": The Arnold Rothstein Story -- INTERLUDE: Jazz Age Politics -- PART II. Frankfurter among the Anarchists -- INTERLUDE: JAZZ AGE CULTURE -- PART III. "Mammy, Don't YouKnow Me?": Al Jolson and the Jews -- CONCLUSION: JAZZ AGE JEWS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance more than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation. The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore this paradox in the psychology of American Jewry. All three Jews were born in the 1880s, grew up around American Jewish ghettos, married gentile women, entered the middle class, and rose to national fame. All three also became heroes to the American Jewish community for their association with events that galvanized the country and defined the Jazz Age. Rothstein allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series--an accusation this book disputes. Frankfurter defended the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Jolson brought jazz music to Hollywood for the first talking film, The Jazz Singer, and regularly impersonated African Americans in blackface. Each of these men represented a version of the American outsider, and American Jews celebrated them for it. Michael Alexander's gracefully written account profoundly complicates the history of immigrants in America. It challenges charges that anti-Semitism exclusively or even mostly explains Jews' feelings of marginality, while it calls for a general rethinking of positions that have assumed an immigrant quest for inclusion into the white American mainstream. Rather, Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status stemmed from the group identity Jews brought with them to this country in the form of the theology of exile. Jazz Age Jews shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different--and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Jews United States Biography. Jews United States Identity. Jews United States Politics and government 20th century. Jews United States Social life and customs. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187471?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187471.jpg |
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