| Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Novick, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403970092 ISBN-13: 9781403970091 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: 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 are "Jewish 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - General - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.509 |
| LCCN: 2007036453 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.71" W x 8.55" (0.72 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |