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american broadcasting
american yiddish history
americanization of yiddish radio performers
Author_Ari Y. Kelman
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cultural history
culture of yiddish radio
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history of american broadcasting
jewish life in the us
jewish mass media
jewish studies
judaism
media studies
radio studies
yiddish
yiddish acoustic community
yiddish america culture
yiddish culture
yiddish history in the us
yiddish in postwar america
yiddish in the us
yiddish language
yiddish popular culture
yiddish radio
yiddish theater
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255739
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the culture of Yiddish radio in the United States during radio's golden age. Ari Y. Kelman explores the dynamic relationships between an immigrant population and a mass medium and between audience and community. By focusing on voices previously excluded from radio histories, this treatment of non-English-language radio breaks new ground in the study of both American mass media and immigrant culture. Yiddish radio directly addressed the everyday lives of Jewish immigrants, while providing them with invaluable guidance as they struggled to become American. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, radio created a virtual place where Jewish immigrants could listen to voices like theirs and affirm the sound of their community as it evolved, particularly in light of World War II and the years that followed.
Ari Y. Kelman is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis.
