Beyond the Golden Door

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"Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just happen to be Jewish: they are Jewish playwrights. They and other Jewish playwrights have written out of their own experience, for general American audiences, about what it feels like to be twentieth-century American Jews. Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights have dramatized the great struggle to balance Old World heritage with New World opportunity - a struggle with implications for all American ethnicities."--Jacket.

subjects: Judaism and literature,  Jewish authors,  Jews,  Jews in literature,  Intellectual life,  History and criticism,  American drama,  American drama, jewish authors,  American drama, history and criticism, 20th century,  Jews, united states,  Jews, intellectual life,  DRAMA,  American,  Theatre studies,  Literary studies: plays & playwrights,  Literary studies: from c 1900 -.,  Jewish studies,  Performing Arts

Places: United States

Times: 20th century