Glenn C. Altschuler
By Glenn C. Altschuler
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Culture Miami Vice Versa
Saving South Beach By M. Barron Stofik University Press of Florida, 336 pages, $27.95. * * *| Miami’s South Beach neighborhood is an urban icon. Bringing new meaning to the term multicultural, South Beach is one of the only places in the United States where a twenty-something can have morning coffee with Grandma and her…
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Culture Bright Lights, Little Village: Jews in Small-town America
* * *| ‘A baker who can make kimmel bread and German rolls (bagels, too, I suppose) can do well in Kalamazoo,” a field agent for the Industrial Removal Office of the Baron de Hirsch Fund reported in 1907. A junk dealer in Ashland, Ky., he added three years later, would gladly replace the Negro…
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Culture All the World Is a Stage
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical By Andrea Most Harvard University Press, 253 pages, $29.95. * * *| Why has a disproportionate percentage of Jews in the United States gravitated toward the entertainment industry? Were enterprising and talented Jews able to make popular culture an empire of their own because the non-Jews deemed theater,…
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