Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004: 11 (Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers) - Hardcover

Furnish, Ben

9780820461977: Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004: 11 (Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820461970 ISBN 13: 9780820461977

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2004

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�How does history become memory and then nostalgia? By exploring many key texts that have recently enlivened the Jewish-American stage and screen, Ben Furnish offers readers a cogent and thoughtful way to consider how past and present are bridged. His book is a splendid meditation on the threads, however fragile, that make artistic creation continuous with ethnic experience.� (Steven J. Whitfield, Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Author, 'In Search of American Jewish Culture')

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Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.

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