The American Jewish story through cinema / by Eric A. Goldman. by Goldman, Eric A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a century of American Jewish life -- The jazz singer : out of the Jewish ghetto (the 1920s) -- Gentleman's agreement and Crossfire : films that took on anti-semitism in 1947 (the 1940s) -- The young lions : guaranteeing acceptance (the 1950s) -- The way we were and The prince of tides : Barbra Streisand and the evolving American Jewish woman (the 1970s and 1980s) -- Avalon and Liberty heights : the spirit of family -- remembering better (the 1990s) -- Everything is illuminated : a new direction in film -- Searching for a usable past (the twenty-first century).…”
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