Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media their lives in­tertwine through the

their lives in­tertwine through the elaborate fictions they construct and inhabit: a vast panorama of humane hamburger stands

directed plays and composed theatre music in New Orleans

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

loose pages of his manuscript just hours before he and other camp inmates were shot to death and their bodies burnt on a pyre

Borrowed Voices: Writing & Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser non-media their lives in­tertwine through theIn 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