Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced the Image of Jews - Softcover

Siegel, David S.; Siegel, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891379089 ISBN 13: 9781891379086

Publisher: Book Hunter Pr, 2007

Synopsis

From stereotypes to role models, the first in-depth look at how Jews were porotrayed on netwrok radio from the 1920s to the 1950s.Includes CD with sample program excerpts.

About this title

From the Publisher:

From Amos 'n' Andy to the Goldbergs to Life With Luigi, ethnic, religious and racial stereotypes were a part of radio from the 1920s through the mid 1950s. Radio and the Jews examines how Jews were portrayed on the airwaves and how those images influenced what middle America throught about Jews.

The book includes both positive and negative stereotypes and models; discusses several long forgotten series; examines the controversy over the use of the Yiddish dialect to identify Jewish characters;why some Jewish secular organizations objected to certain programs and tried to force them off the air; and how the airwaves were used to spread the anti-Semitic message of people like Father Charles Coughlin and Gerald L. K. Smith.

About the Author:

David S. Siegel has been collecting golden age of radio broadcasts, books and ephemera for other 40 years. He is the editor of The Witch's Tale, an anthology of scripts about a 1930s horror program and co-author of Flashgun Casey, Crime Photograhper and co-author, with his wife, Susan Siegel, of two major golden age of radio reference books: A Resource Guide to the Golden Age of Radio: Special Collections, Bibliography and the Internet and Radio Scripts in Print: Books Featuring 1,700 Golden Age of Radio Scripts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Hunter Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1891379089
• ISBN 13: 9781891379086
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 283