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| Beyond the Golden Door 1st Edition :Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience |
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| Authors |
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Julius Novick
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9781403970091 |
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Palgrave Macmillan U.K. |
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Palgrave Macmillan |
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£ 40.00 |
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1 /e |
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| Pages |
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189 |
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Hardback |
| Publication Year |
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2008 |
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Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew--or to be an American, for that matter?
Contents
The Golden Land * Elmer Rice’s Multi-Ethnic New York * The Bronx * Arthur Miller and the Jews * Prosperity and Its Discontents * Neil Simon: Brighton Beach to Broadway * The Musicals * German Jews, Southern Jews * More Fathers and Sons * Jewish Daughters |
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