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American Judaism in popular culture

Title
American Judaism in popular culture / editors, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins.
Publication
Omaha, NE : Creighton University Press ; Lincoln, NE : Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
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  • Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
  • Simkins, Ronald.
Description
xvi, 270 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 17
Subject
  • Jews in popular culture > United States
  • Jews > United States > Identity
  • Popular culture > Religious aspects > Judaism
  • Popular culture > Social aspects > History. > United States
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  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Harness my Zebras : American Jews and the pursuit of pleasure / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Picturing prejudice in Hollywood's first films about Anti-Semitism / Lawrence Baron -- Hollywood, the Holocaust, and World War II / Steven Alan Carr -- David of Hollywood : Israelite king or American superhero / G. Andrew Tooze -- Hang Hitler! : The Three Stooges take potshots at Nazis / Lynn Rapaport -- A passion for words for the witty : S. J. Perelman, Jewish-American satirist / Thomas A. Kuhlman -- From Sholem Aleichem to Harvey Fierstein and Wendy Wasserstein : love makes a family and history in Jewish-American performance / Ben Furnish -- Muggers in black coats : the alleged hijacking of American Judaism / Nora L. Rubel -- The crowning of a Jewish Jordan : Tamir Goodman, the American sports media, and Modern Orthodox Jewry's fantasy world / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Tchotchkes : a study of popular culture in tangible form / Judith S. Neulander -- From Mr. Hankey to The Hebrew Hammer : Hanukkah in pop culture / Dan W. Clanton, Jr. -- Absolutely Kosher music : The story of American Jews in Rock and Roll / Steven Horowitz -- Oh Mama, could this really be the end : the apocalyptic Bob Dylan / Dereck Daschke -- Not aways a laughing matter : Jews and Judaism in the comic strips / Leonard J. Greenspoon
Call Number
*PZB 08-404
ISBN
  • 1881871568
  • 9781881871569
LCCN
2006028072
OCLC
71237328
Title
American Judaism in popular culture / editors, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins.
Imprint
Omaha, NE : Creighton University Press ; Lincoln, NE : Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
Series
Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 17
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
Simkins, Ronald.
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*PZB 08-404
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