The Passionate People
Inbunden bok. Leslie Frewin. 1969. 352 sidor.
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In his foreword to this book the author writes: 'Nineteen years after Hitler's death it seemed propitious and, more than that, essential to begin a consideration of Jews in America. And so Roger Kahn began a remarkable four-year journey around Jewish America that has prod- uced this immensely readable, moving, intense and, at times, wry evocation of the joys and sorrows of America's five-and-a- half million Jews.
Depicted on this colourful tapestry is a generation of Jew- rya housewife living in terror, a comedian afraid of success, a concentration camp survivor living in the splendour, opulence and solitude of Hollywood, and many more. It reveals the extent of Jewish success and in- fluence in American society - particularly in the arts, in sport and in business, and it records the Jewish reaction to the American colour problem.
