Book Details
Orange Code:32034
Paperback:200 pages
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Sections:
1. The Golden Land2. Elmer Rice's Multiethnic New York3. The Bronx4. Arthur Miller and the Jews5. Prosperity and Its Discontents6. Neil Simon: Brighton Beach to Broadway7. The Musicals8. German Jews, Southern Jews9. More Fathers and Sons10. Jewish Daughters
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Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just happen to be Jewish: they areJewish playwrights. They and other Jewish playwrights have written out of their own experience, for general American audiences, about what it feels like to be twentieth-century American Jews. Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights have dramatized the great struggle to balance Old World heritage with New World opportunity—a struggle with implications for all American ethnicities.
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