Klezmer America
Subtitle: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 1, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780231142793
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States; History -- World -- Jewish; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Special Groups -- Ethnic Studies; Religion & Spirituality -- Judaism
First sentence: IN THIS PASSAGE from his resonantly entitled book, The Imaginary Jew, French critic Alain Finkielkraut neatly encapsulates the conundrum that Jews have long posed to the imagination of the West.