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Shofar, September, 2006
American Jewish Life
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, by Paul Buhle. London: Verso, 2004. 304 pp. $25.00. ISBN 1-85984-598-3.
This investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development of American popular culture draws upon oral histories with several generations of Jewish artists, little-utilized Yiddish scholarship, and the author's own connections with today's comic-strip artists. Buhle shows how the rich legacy of Yiddish prepared would-be artists to absorb the cultures of their surrounding environments, seeing the world through the eyes of others, and producing the talent required for theater, films, television, popular music and comics.
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