Only in America: Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780805243673ISBN-10:805243674UPC:9780805243673Book Category:Performing Arts, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Film, Jewish, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.60 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCDNMJQR88
Only in America: Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer
A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780805243673ISBN-10:805243674UPC:9780805243673Book Category:Performing Arts, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Film, Jewish, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.60 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCDNMJQR88
RICHARD BERNSTEIN has been a reporter, foreign correspondent, and culture critic for forty years, starting at Time magazine, then at The New York Times, and currently as a freelance writer. His foreign postings for Time and The New York Times include Hong Kong, Beijing, Paris, and Berlin. He has written ten books and articles for numerous publications, including The New York Review of Books, The...
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