Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Jonathan Freedman

December, 2007
Cloth, 408 pages, 17 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14278-6
$34.50 / £20.50

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 has also taught at Yale, Caltech, and Oxford universities and at the Bread Loaf School of English. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture and The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Anti-Semitism, and the Making of Literary Anglo-America.

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