Sheryl Stahl asks about Jewish content in Gene Wilder’s fiction. Although very few people mention this film, I think one of his greatest early performances was his portrayal, opposite Margot Kidder, of an Irish manure collector in “Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx.” I have regularly used this film in courses on Jewish history because of the remarkable way in which the working class hero is taught about, identifies with, and then mis-appropriates his “own” history at the urging of a rich American college student who comes to enjoy his “native” culture. It is a charming and less controversial way to get students to think about the use and mis-use of history, about the “real experience” of study abroad, and about cultural progress generally. The DVD is available cheap (but intermittently) from Amazon.
Bernard Dov Cooperman Louis L. Kaplan Assoc. Prof. of Jewish History ℅ Dept. of History F.S. Key Hall 2115 University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 301-405-4271 301-314-9399 (fax) > On Sep 7, 2016, at 6:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:23:29 +0000 > From: "Stahl, Sheryl" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [ha-Safran] fiction by Gene Wilder > Message-ID: > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I didn't see reviews of any of Gene Wilder's fiction in the book review > index. Does anyone know if they have Jewish content? > > Sheryl > > > Sheryl Stahl > Senior Associate Library > Frances-Henry Library > Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion > 3077 University Ave. > Los Angeles, CA 90007 > > 213-765-2127 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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