The Salome Ensemble
Subtitle: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal
By: Alan Robert Ginsberg
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780815634423; 9780815610656
Subjects: Jewish women artists; American Arts; Social conditions; Women immigrants; Intellectual life
Description: "The Salome Ensemble recovers the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and an actress in 1920s New York City. These Jewish women immigrants created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome, like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg interprets their creative collaboration as a project of self-invention that shaped and reflected the cultural landscape"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.