Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media Full-color illustrations throughout

Full-color illustrations throughout

Forty-two stories from America’s greatest Yiddish newspaper

Holocaust studies

a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of World War I

Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media Full-color illustrations throughoutIn the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non white America. In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark