edited by Robert L. Carringer and Tino Balio
University of Wisconsin Press, 1979
Paper: 978-0-299-07664-1
Library of Congress Classification PN1997.J353J3
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.437

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The Jazz Singer was the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. Set in the 1920s, it deals with the elemental conflicts underlying a precise historical moment for the first-generation Jew in America—sacred versus profane, Jew versus Gentile, ascetic versus libertine, deprivation versus economic promise, immobility versus displacement.

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