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Article Excerpt
Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s. By David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel. Yorktown Heights, NY: Book Hunter Press, 2007. viii + 283 pp.
Numerous scholarly works have examined the image of Jews in popular theater, music, film, and television. However, the other great mass medium of the twentieth century, radio, has largely escaped the notice of American Jewish popular culture scholars. (1) There is not a single monograph that surveys popular Jewish radio, though recent books have included chapters on the long-running radio series The Goldbergs, and Glenn D. Smith, Jr. completed a full-length biography of series star Gertrude Berg in 2007. (2) David S. Siegel and Susan Siegel attempt to fill this void with Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews, 1920s-1950s. The book explores the way popular radio programs addressed themes that have long been of interest to scholars of American Jewish history, including...
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