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Book SynopsisKlezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America.
Trade ReviewThere are some fascinating vignettes in this book. -- Shoel Stadlen Times Literary Supplement always engaging and at time groundbreaking. -- David Brauner Wasafiri
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
