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Article: Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical .(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Most, Andrea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 253 pp., $29.95 (USD). ISBN: 0674011651.
[1] How did Jews become Americanized? How did they navigate private and public identity in a lively sea of competing and possibly incommensurable identities? These are the broad, central questions that Andrea Most poses and answers in a pathbreaking work in Jewish cultural studies. Her book, Making Americans, traces the development of the Broadway musical in the second quarter of the twentieth century, using this development as a lens by which to consider the transformation and transmission of identity in America's multicultural bustle.
[2] Through her ...