From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot
Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays
In his historic play The Melting Pot, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) introduced into our discourse a potent metaphor that for nearly a hundred years has served as a key definition of the United States. The play, enthusiastically espoused by President Theodore Roosevelt, to whom it was dedicated, offered a grand vision of America as a dynamic process of ethnic and racial amalgamation. By his own admission, The Melting Pot grew out of Zangwill's intense involvement in issues of Jewish immigration and resettlement and was grounded in his interpretation of Jewish history. Zangwill, Anglo Jewry's most renowned writer, began wri…
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Weitere Autoren: Nahshon, Edna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8143-2955-9
- EAN: 9780814329559
- Produktnummer: 2128884
- Verlag: Wayne State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 568 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 930 g
- Abbildungen: 16 illustrations
- Gewicht: 930
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Edna Nahshon is associate professor of Hebrew at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She has written extensively on Jewish theater and is the author of Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940 (Greenwood, 1998).
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