Jewhooing the Sixties

Jewhooing the Sixties
Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1611683157

A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand
Author: Neal Gabler
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300220715

Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness—a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention—and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.

Shul with a Pool

Shul with a Pool
Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1999
Genre: Jewish community centers
ISBN: 9780874518931

The evolution of an American institution that reflects the unique tension between Judaism and Jewishness.

Jacob H. Schiff

Jacob H. Schiff
Author: Naomi Wiener Cohen
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780874519488

The first full-scale biography of a major Jewish leader and financier.

Jewhooing the Sixties

Jewhooing the Sixties
Author: David Kaufman
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611683149

A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Jewish Power

Jewish Power
Author: J. J. Goldberg
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1996-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN:

an independent force on the national and world scene in the last quarter-century. Goldberg offers an insider's portrait of the people, the institutions, the money, and the ideas that make up organized Jewish political influence in the U.S.

Movie-Made Jews

Movie-Made Jews
Author: Helene Meyers
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1978821905

Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. Author Helene Meyers shows that as we go to our local theater, attend a Jewish film festival, play a DVD, watch streaming videos, Jewishness becomes part of the multicultural mosaic rather than collapsing into a generic whiteness or being represented as a life apart. This engagingly-written book demonstrates that a Jewish movie is neither just a movie nor for Jews only. With incisive analysis, Movie-Made Jews challenges the assumption that American Jewish cinema is a cinema of impoverishment and assimilation. While it’s a truism that Jews make movies, this book brings into focus the diverse ways movies make Jews.

What Went Wrong?

What Went Wrong?
Author: Murray Friedman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1416576681

From Selma to Crown Heights--what happened to the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance? Murray Friedman recounts for the first time the whole history of the Black-Jewish relationship in America, from colonial times to the present, and shows that this history is far more complex--and conflicted--than historians and revisionists admit.