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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal
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ZIN Product Number: 10050089
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 Format: Hardcover, 189 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252025393
Release Date: Jan 7, 1999
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In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster -- a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity -- as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | xi | | A Note on Transliteration | xiii | | Introduction: Reading, Writing, and the Rackets | 1 | | 1. | Imagine You Are a Tiger: A New Folk Hero in Babel's Odessa Tales | 15 | | 2. | A Sordid Generation: Plundering Ethnic Culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch Paunch and Jowl | 50 | | 3. | A Gang of Little Yids: Savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without Money | 70 | | 4. | Business Is Business: The Death of the Gangster in Daniel Fuchs's Novels of the 1930s | 119 | | Conclusion: The Gangster's Funeral | 141 | | Notes | 147 | | References Cited | 167 | | Index | 183 |
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