Reviews
"Alexander's genial and generally jargon-free book offers a provocative portrait of how Jazz Age Jews understood their Jewishness." --Lev Raphael, The Jerusalem Report, "Alexander's genial and generally jargon-free book offers a provocative portrait of how Jazz Age Jews understood their Jewishness." ---Lev Raphael, The Jerusalem Report, " Jazz Age Jews is a significant contribution to our understanding of American Jewish culture and society. It reinterprets the meaning of Jewish identification with the outsider in the 1920s and demonstrates the profound impact such Jewish behavior and beliefs had on American culture. Alexander knows how to tell a good story and has chosen wonderful case studies as the means to spin his narratives. With new ideas on almost every page, this is an excellent book." --Deborah Dash Moore, author of At Home in America, " Jazz Age Jews is an accessible and informative contribution to the ongoing dialogue about American Jewish acculturation in the early part of the twentieth century." --Andrea Most, American Jewish History, As [Alexander] points out, of all America's ethnic minorities, only the Jazz Age Jews seemed to care for the downtrodden in other groups. . . . If this is revisionist history, I like it. ---Michael Freedland, Jewish Chronicle, "[A] deft and provocative book. . . . [Alexander] paints a vivid portrait of popular anti-Semitism of the time. . . . His arguments in the first two sections are dazzling. . . . Alexander's commentary is elucidating and insightful, an important contribution to both Jewish and cultural studies."-- Publishers Weekly, "As [Alexander] points out, of all America's ethnic minorities, only the Jazz Age Jews seemed to care for the downtrodden in other groups. . . . If this is revisionist history, I like it." --Michael Freedland, Jewish Chronicle, "[A] deft and provocative book. . . . [Alexander] paints a vivid portrait of popular anti-Semitism of the time. . . . His arguments in the first two sections are dazzling. . . . Alexander's commentary is elucidating and insightful, an important contribution to both Jewish and cultural studies." -- Publishers Weekly, "As [Alexander] points out, of all America's ethnic minorities, only the Jazz Age Jews seemed to care for the downtrodden in other groups. . . . If this is revisionist history, I like it."-- Michael Freedland, Jewish Chronicle, " Jazz Age Jews is an accessible and informative contribution to the ongoing dialogue about American Jewish acculturation in the early part of the twentieth century."-- Andrea Most, American Jewish History, "A fascinating study. . . . Jazz Age Jews covers its subject without padding or pedantry. . . . A book that takes strong, interesting positions on how the Jews made their way into mainstream America."-- Sanford Pinsker, Philadelphia Inquirer, A fascinating study. . . . Jazz Age Jews covers its subject without padding or pedantry. . . . A book that takes strong, interesting positions on how the Jews made their way into mainstream America. ---Sanford Pinsker, Philadelphia Inquirer, Alexander's genial and generally jargon-free book offers a provocative portrait of how Jazz Age Jews understood their Jewishness. ---Lev Raphael, The Jerusalem Report, "Michael Alexander's Jazz Age Jews is an imaginative interpretation of American Jewish history. Beautifully and forcefully written, this account focuses on how Jews in the United States have perceived of themselves as outsiders. Alexander's arguments will raise eyebrows, infuriate some, and stimulate widespread discussion. Nonetheless, his approach may be a forerunner of a new way to examine American Jewish history." --Leonard Dinnerstein, author of Anti-Semitism in America, America and the Survivors of the Holocaust , and The Leo Frank Case, "A fascinating study. . . . Jazz Age Jews covers its subject without padding or pedantry. . . . A book that takes strong, interesting positions on how the Jews made their way into mainstream America." --Sanford Pinsker, Philadelphia Inquirer, "As [Alexander] points out, of all America's ethnic minorities, only the Jazz Age Jews seemed to care for the downtrodden in other groups. . . . If this is revisionist history, I like it." ---Michael Freedland, Jewish Chronicle, "A fascinating study. . . . Jazz Age Jews covers its subject without padding or pedantry. . . . A book that takes strong, interesting positions on how the Jews made their way into mainstream America." ---Sanford Pinsker, Philadelphia Inquirer, " Jazz Age Jews is an accessible and informative contribution to the ongoing dialogue about American Jewish acculturation in the early part of the twentieth century." ---Andrea Most, American Jewish History, "Alexander's genial and generally jargon-free book offers a provocative portrait of how Jazz Age Jews understood their Jewishness."-- Lev Raphael, The Jerusalem Report, Jazz Age Jews is an accessible and informative contribution to the ongoing dialogue about American Jewish acculturation in the early part of the twentieth century. ---Andrea Most, American Jewish History, [A] deft and provocative book. . . . [Alexander] paints a vivid portrait of popular anti-Semitism of the time. . . . His arguments in the first two sections are dazzling. . . . Alexander's commentary is elucidating and insightful, an important contribution to both Jewish and cultural studies.
