TY - GEN T1 - Klezmer America : Jewishness, ethnicity, modernity A1 - Freedman, Jonathan, 1954- LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn607844518 AB - Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity? Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative productions of Latinos, Asians, African Americans, and gays and lesbians, among others. He traces these relationships in a number of arenas: the crossover between jazz and klezmer and its consequences in Philip Roth's The Human Stain; the relationship between Jewishness and queer identity in Tony Kushner's Angels in America; fictions concerning crypto-Jews in Cuba and the Mexican-American borderland; the connection between Jews and Christian apocalyptic narratives; stories of "new immigrants" by Bharathi Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Gary Shteyngart; and the revisionary relation of these authors to the classic Jewish American immigrant narratives of Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. By interrogating the fraught and multidimensional uses of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness, Freedman deepens our understanding of ethnoracial complexities OP - 388 CN - E184.36.I58 F74 2008 SN - 9780231512343 SN - 0231512341 SN - 9780231142786 SN - 0231142781 KW - Jews : United States : Intellectual life : 20th century. KW - United States : Intellectual life : 20th century. KW - Popular culture : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Jews : United States : Identity. KW - Jews : Cultural assimilation : United States. KW - Juifs : États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle. KW - États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle. KW - Culture populaire : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Juifs : États-Unis : Identité. KW - Juifs : Acculturation : États-Unis. KW - RELIGION : Judaism : History. KW - Intellectual life KW - Jews : Cultural assimilation KW - Jews : Identity KW - Jews : Intellectual life KW - Popular culture KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -