Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media — Leonard Nimoy

— Leonard Nimoy

Forty-two stories from America’s greatest Yiddish newspaper

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

He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage and the editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches

the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression

Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media — Leonard NimoyIn 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