Author: Harry HershfieldPublisher:
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Abie the Agent
Author: Harry HershfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
Author: Paul R. KavieffPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang is a photographic history of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century. The photographs chronologically follow the evolution of the Purples from their days as a juvenile street gang through their rise to power and eventual self-destruction. Using rare police department mug shots and group photographs, the book transports readers through the dark side of Prohibition-era Detroit history. Detroit had a gold rush atmosphere and a thriving black market during the 1920s that attracted gangsters and unsavory characters from all over the country.
In Their Own Image
Author: Ted MerwinPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813538099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Jazz Age of the 1920s is an era remembered for illegal liquor, innovative music and dance styles, and burgeoning ideas of social equality. It was also the period during which second-generation Jews began to emerge as a significant demographic in New York City. In TheirOwn Image examines thegrowing cultural visibility of Jewish life amid this vibrant scene. From the vaudeville routines of Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, and Sophie Tucker, to the slew of Broadway comedies about Jewish life and the silent films that showed immigrant families struggling to leave the ghetto, images and representations of Jews became staples of interwar popular culture. Through the performing arts, Jews expressed highly ambivalent feelings about their identification with Jewish and American cultures. Ted Merwin shows how they became American by producing and consuming not images of another group, but images of themselves. As a result, they humanized Jewish stereotypes, softened anti-Semitic attitudes, and laid the groundwork for today's Jewish comedians. An entertaining look at the role popular culture plays in promoting the acculturation of an ethnic group, In Their Own Image enhances our understanding of American Jewish history and provides a model for the study of other groups and their integration into mainstream society.
The Comics
Author: Coulton WaughPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878054992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Insights into the aesthetics of one of popular culture's favorite art forms
Editor & Publisher
Author: The Purples
Author: W. K. BergerPublisher: W. K. Berger
ISBN: 0615231705
Category : Gangs
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
*AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL SEMIFINALIST* Shunned by his community... locked up for trying to help an innocent girl... ambushed by rivals and left for dead in the Detroit River: Joe Bernstein has a few scores to settle, and a bold plan to seize control of the Motor City in its booming 1920s heyday. With his faithful "agent" Abie, his brilliant but fragile brother Max, and an out-of-control enforcer named Grabowski (not to mention a couple of carnivorous creatures known as "the babies"), Bernstein gives rise to the infamous Purple Gang-so named by local merchants because the gang's members were said to be "tainted, like spoiled meat." Bernstein's boys set their sights on taking over the Detroit River, the pipeline connecting dry America to wet Canada. But Joe also must contend with having "a sweetheart in the nut house" and rising tensions within his gang. Worst of all, the D.A.'s office has brought in an amputee war hero named Riley--who seems to be one step ahead of Joe's big plans. A fast-paced thriller that builds to the climactic Collingwood Massacre (a seminal event that changed Detroit forever), THE PURPLES blends richly-detailed historical fiction with nonstop action, all narrated in the wry voice of the smart, self-deluding, and unforgettable Joe Bernstein. "Corruption in 1920s Detroit is brought to life in vivid detail in this accomplished book." -Publishers Weekly
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood
Author: Paul BuhlePublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859845981
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
Author: Rachel RubinPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025396
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to explore the fate of Jewishness in the "new worlds" of the United States and the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.
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