Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

Paper, 408 pages, 17 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14279-3
$22.50 / £15.50

December, 2007
Cloth, 408 pages, 17 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14278-6
$34.50 / £24.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Angels, Monsters, and Jews: From Kushner to Klezmer

2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, , and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity

3. Antisemitism Without Jews: Left Behind in the American Heartland

4. The Human Stain of Race: Roth, Sirk, and Shaw in Black, White, and Jewish

5. Conversos, Marranos,, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish-Hispanic Crossings and the Uses of Ethnicity

6. Transgressions of a Model Minority

7. Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice

Conclusion: The Klezmering of America

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• Judaism
• Race and Ethnicity

About the Author

Jonathan Freedman is professor of English and American studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture and The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America.

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