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Un-Americans : Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture / Joseph Litvak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Litvak, Joseph, author.
- Series:
- Series Q
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-communist movements--United States.
- Anti-communist movements.
- Ethnic relations--Political aspects.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Un-Americans
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Joseph Litvak shows how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the 'blacklist period' was characterized by demands to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.
- Contents:
- Sycoanalysis : an introductionJew envyPetrified laughter : Jews in pictures, 1947Collaborators : Schulberg, Kazan, and a face in the crowdComicosmopolitanism : behind televisionBringing down the house : the blacklist musicalCoda : cosmopolitan states.
- Notes:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781478090151
- 1478090154
- OCLC:
- 1309018481
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