num_pages: 188
description: Set in the 1920s, it deals with the elemental conflicts underlying a precise historical moment for the first-generation Jew in America—sacred versus profane, Jew versus Gentile, ascetic versus libertine, deprivation versus economic promise, immobility versus displacement.
language: English
title: The Jazz singer
titlecomplete: The Jazz singer (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press