Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience

Novick, J.

Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew - or to be an American, for that matter?

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-07-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403970091

DOI: 10.1057/9780230611832

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 189