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Carolina Israelite [electronic resource] : how Harry Golden made us care about Jews, the South, and civil rights / Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469623214
  • 1469623218
  • 9781469621043
  • 1469621037
  • 9781469621036
  • 1469621045
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Carolina Israelite.DDC classification:
  • 818/.5409 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4874.G535 H37 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Putting down roots in the goldeneh medina -- Heading South -- A new life and a new cause in Dixie -- Brown, flames, and fame -- Scandal and resurrection -- Ghosts and great men -- Grief, hope, and black power -- The real iron curtain -- Epilogue: Only in America.
Summary: "This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1902-1981), author of the 1958 national best-seller 'Only in America', illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting down roots in the goldeneh medina -- Heading South -- A new life and a new cause in Dixie -- Brown, flames, and fame -- Scandal and resurrection -- Ghosts and great men -- Grief, hope, and black power -- The real iron curtain -- Epilogue: Only in America.

"This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1902-1981), author of the 1958 national best-seller 'Only in America', illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s"-- Provided by publisher.

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