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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity. By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xi + 388 pp.

For the past fifteen years or so, discussions about Jewishness and American Jewish culture have revolved around questions of race and ethnicity, with a particular focus in the last decade on the whiteness of Jews. Arguing that these oft-cited tropes of American Jewish experience in the twentieth century--immigration, assimilation, and especially the move from racial other to whiteness--fail to capture the complexity and creativity of Jewishness in the twenty-first century, Jonathan Freedman's Klezmer America lays the foundation for the next stage in this conversation. At the same time, he shows how these Jewish narratives have...

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