Foreword -- ; Editorial introduction / Michael Renov and Vincent Brook, guest editors -- part 1. Histories -- ; 1. Still an empire of their own : how Jews remain atop a reinvented Hollywood / Vincent Brook -- 2. The Ben Urwand controversy : exploring the Hollywood-Hitler relationship / Lawrence Baron and Joel Rosenberg, with a Coda by Vincent Brook -- part 2. Case studies -- ; 3. Dirty Jews : Amy Schumer and other vulgar Jewesses / Shaina Hammerman -- 4. "The woman thing and the Jew thing" : transsexuality, transcomedy, and the legacy of subversive Jewishness in transparent / Joshua Louis Moss -- 5. Eastern-European fatalism in Minnesota : the mournful destinies of A serious man / Howard A. Rodman -- 6. "If Jewish people wrote all the songs" : the anti-folklore of Allan Sherman / Jeffrey Shandler -- part 3. Up-close and personal -- ; 7. Comedy and corned beef : the genesis of the sitcom writing room / David Isaacs -- 8. The faemmle business : Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles, and the moviegoing experience -- ; an interview with Bob and Greg Laemmle / Ross Melnick -- 9. An outsider's view of sixties America : Matthew Weiner talks with Michael Renov about the Jews of Mad men / Michael Renov |