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Article: Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2005
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Paul Buhle, From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture (London: Verso 2004)
I WAS LOOKING forward to reading this book, and indeed it is encyclopedic in scope--a virtual who's who of Jews, left-wing and otherwise, on stage, on the screen, and in comics including, for good measure, a few whom Buhle feels might as well be Jewish, like Chaplin, and the cartoonist R. Crumb. I share Buhle's passions for Yiddish, and secular Jewish culture. The particular position of left Jews living in a hostile anti-Semitic world and in revolt against the limitations of what they saw as the ossified theocracy of a shtetl life controlled by the rabbis and ...