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Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860-1920
by Harley Erdman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (1997-08)
ISBN: 081352413X
EAN: 9780813524139
Dewy Decimal #: 791.089924073
Hardcover: 221 pages
SKU: T070801-5109
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good + overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. No dust cover. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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This work attempts to uncover the roots of Jewish characteristion in popular culture by inestigating a forgotten era in American show business. The author examines early Jewish performers who were instrumental in creating the image of the Jew on the American stage and screen. Covering a "forgotten era" in show business, the text takes in broad scope of performance genres and "stars" from M.D. Curtis, David Warfield, director D.W. Griffith and other early Jewish performers to Fanny Brice, Al Jolson and the Marx Brothers to modern performers such as Sarah Berhardt.
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