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"By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance more than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation.".
"The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore this paradox in the psychology of American Jewry. All three Jews were born in the 1880s, grew up around American Jewish ghettos, married gentile women, entered the middle class, and rose to national fame. All three also became heroes to the American Jewish community for their association with events that galvanized the country and defined the Jazz Age.
Rothstein allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series - an accusation this book disputes. Frankfurter defended the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Jolson brought jazz to Hollywood for the first talking film, The Jazz Singer, and regularly impersonated African Americans in blackface. Each of these men represented a version of the American outsider, and American Jews celebrated them for it."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jews, Ethnic relations, History, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Identity, Biography, Rothstein, arnold, 1883-1928, Jolson, al, 1886-1950, Jews, united states, biography, Jews, united states, social life and customs, Jews, united states, politics and government, United states, ethnic relationsShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Jazz Age Jews
August 11, 2003, Princeton University Press
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October 1, 2001, Princeton University Press
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