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| country = [[United States]]
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| author = [[Donald Weber]]
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| language = English
| language = English
| genre = [[Literary criticism]]
| genre = [[Literary criticism]]
| publisher = [[Indiana University]] Press
| publisher = [[Indiana University]] Press
| release_date = 2005
| release_date = June 30, 2005
| isbn = 0-2533-4579-0
| isbn = 978-0-253-34579-0
| dewey = 305.892/4073 22
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'''Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs''' is a 2005 book by [[Donald Weber]]. It offers an overview 20th century [[Jewish American literature]] and popular culture.
'''''Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs''''' is a 2005 book by [[Donald Weber]] written as an overview of 20th century [[Jewish American literature]] and popular culture. [[Abraham Cahan]] was one of the most recognizable Jewish-American writers in both [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] and English. [[The Goldbergs (broadcast series)|''The Goldbergs'']] began in 1929 as a radio comedy and drama about a Jewish-American family, and the show was initially targeted for Yiddish radio stations, but they made the leap first to CBS radio in 1936, and then to mass-market television in 1949, becoming a long-running situation comedy.


==Reviews==
==Reviews==
According to a review in ''American Jewish History'', "Weber's readings prove a valuable resource through their insightful demonstration of the interrelation of public culture with emotions that are deeply felt personally and, at the same time, shared experiences that proved definitional for many American Jews. Indeed, [...] ''Haunted in the New World'' provides the scholar of American Jewish life a valuable guide to issues of affect that can now seem mystifying to younger generations." [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v092/92.3shandler.html]
According to a review in ''American Jewish History'', "Weber's readings prove a valuable resource through their insightful demonstration of the interrelation of public culture with emotions that are deeply felt personally and, at the same time, shared experiences that proved definitional for many American Jews. Indeed, [...] ''Haunted in the New World'' provides the scholar of American Jewish life a valuable guide to issues of affect that can now seem mystifying to younger generations." [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v092/92.3shandler.html]

==Table of Contents==
*Acknowledgments
*Introduction: Adjusting to America
*1. Outsider in the Old World, Greenhorn in the New: Christopher Newman and David Levinsky
*2. Gastronomic Nostalgia: Anzia Yezierska
*3. The Claims of Descent: Immigrant Cinema
*4. Haunted in the New World: Henry Roth
*5. To Make 'A Jew': Protecting Antisemitism in Post-War America
*6. Memory and Repression: Goldberg Variations
*7. The 'Jewish Opera': Saul Bellow and Other Jewish Sons
*Epilogue: Nostalgia and [[1950s]] Popular Culture
*Notes
*Bibliography
*Index


==See also==
==See also==
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*''[http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1037_1102_1687&products_id=21944 Book review]'' - [[Indiana University]]
*''[http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1037_1102_1687&products_id=21944 Book review]'' - [[Indiana University]]
*''[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v092/92.3shandler.html Book review]'' - [[Project MUSE]]
*''[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_jewish_history/v092/92.3shandler.html Book review]'' - [[Project MUSE]]

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Latest revision as of 00:35, 20 November 2024

Haunted in the New World
Front cover
AuthorDonald Weber
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary criticism
PublisherIndiana University Press
Publication date
June 30, 2005
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN978-0-253-34579-0
OCLC56733135
305.892/4073 22
LC ClassE184.36.E84 W53 2005

Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs is a 2005 book by Donald Weber written as an overview of 20th century Jewish American literature and popular culture. Abraham Cahan was one of the most recognizable Jewish-American writers in both Yiddish and English. The Goldbergs began in 1929 as a radio comedy and drama about a Jewish-American family, and the show was initially targeted for Yiddish radio stations, but they made the leap first to CBS radio in 1936, and then to mass-market television in 1949, becoming a long-running situation comedy.

Reviews

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According to a review in American Jewish History, "Weber's readings prove a valuable resource through their insightful demonstration of the interrelation of public culture with emotions that are deeply felt personally and, at the same time, shared experiences that proved definitional for many American Jews. Indeed, [...] Haunted in the New World provides the scholar of American Jewish life a valuable guide to issues of affect that can now seem mystifying to younger generations." [1]

See also

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