Jews And American Popular Culture
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Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture
Author | : Jack Fischel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313087342 |
This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Without the profound contributions of American Jews, the popular culture we know today would not exist. Where would music be without the music of Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand, humor without Judd Apatow and Jerry Seinfeld, film without Steven Spielberg, literature without Phillip Roth, Broadway without Rodgers and Hammerstein? These are just a few of the artists who broke new ground and changed the face of American popular culture forever. This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. Up-to-date coverage and extensive attention to political and social contexts make this encyclopedia is an excellent resource for high school and college students interested in the full range of Jewish popular culture in the United States. Academic and public libraries will also treasure this work as an incomparable guide to our nation's heritage. Illustrations complement the text throughout, and many entries cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic sources to encourage further research.
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood
Author | : Paul Buhle |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2004-06-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781859845981 |
A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
Talking Back
Author | : Joyce Antler |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874518429 |
Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Author | : Alan Mintz |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 029580369X |
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler�s List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust. It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from closer to our own times. Alan Mintz also addresses the question of how Americans will shape the memory of the Holocaust in the future, concluding with observations on the possibilities and limitations of what is emerging as the major resource for the shaping of Holocaust memory�videotaped survivor testimony. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines some of the influences behind the broad and deep changes in American consciousness and the social forces that permitted the Holocaust to move from the margins to the center of American discourse.
Why the Jews?
Author | : Robert Cherry |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1538143135 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate. Instead, this book argues that the “pleasure principle”—a positive view of bodily pleasures and sexuality that Jewish immigrants held ––gave rise to the role of Jewish influence on popular culture, an influence still felt today. After discussing the pivotal ascendancy of Jews in vaudeville and silent films, Cherry explores the important role that Jewish performers and middlemen played in the evolution of popular culture throughout the century, from stage and the big screen to radio, television, and the music industry. He concludes with a broader discussion of Jewish values that helps explain the continued outsized role that Jews continue to play in American popular culture.
Jews and American Popular Culture: Movies, radio, and television
Author | : Paul Buhle |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This three-volume work tells the story of how Jewish Americans overcame anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant biases, and poverty to shape American film, television, music, sports, literature, food, and humor.
Jews and American Popular Culture: Sports, leisure, and lifestyle
Author | : Paul Buhle |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This three-volume work tells the story of how Jewish Americans overcame anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant biases, and poverty to shape American film, television, music, sports, literature, food, and humor.
Jews and American Popular Culture: Music, theater, popular art, and literature
Author | : Paul Buhle |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This three-volume work tells the story of how Jewish Americans overcame anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant biases, and poverty to shape American film, television, music, sports, literature, food, and humor.
American Judaism in Popular Culture
Author | : Leonard Jay Greenspoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The series Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Harris Center for Judaic Studies, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Volume 17 includes fourteen essays that provide an overview of Jews and Judaism in American popular culture. Relevant discussions of music, film, television, literature, cartoons, sports, and material culture inform our current understanding of the influence that Jewish culture has in modern American society. Taken together, these essays make a strong case that appropriate analysis of popular culture is essential for a proper understanding of something as multifaceted and varied as American Judaism and the American Jewish community. The essays recognize, even if they cannot precisely define, something distinctly "Jewish" and distinctively "American" in each of the individuals and groups featured in this collection.