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

Full-color illustrations throughout

— Leonard Nimoy

directed plays and composed theatre music in New Orleans

a final embrace of John Lennon and Yoko Ono - we may not have known that the creators of these images are Jewish

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