Re: stereotypical Jewish performers?

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: stereotypical Jewish performers?


> Q:
>
> >From: "Marvin" <physchem (at) earthlink(dot)net>
> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >Subject: Re: Fwd: A new klezmermusical in Berlin
> >Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:44:47 -0500
> >
> >Blacks have a name for this kind of performer - Uncle Tom.  I've never
> >heard
> >of a similar name for Jewish performers who took on the streeotypical
role.
>
> A:  Uh, Al Jolson?  I'm probably being cruel--or, more to the point,
> simplistic.  jat -- rlc

I'm not sure that this is a good example.  Jolson was doing what was usual
then in the Yiddish theater.  Perhaps it was a stereotype, but it wasn't the
non-Jew's stereotype specifically.


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