Station Identification

by Kelman, Ari Y.

• ISBN13: 9780520255739
• ISBN10: 0520255739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-27
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This study examines the culture of Yiddish radio in the United States during radio's golden age. Ari Y. Kelman explores the dynamic relationships between an immigrant population and a mass medium and between audience and community. By focusing on voices previously excluded from radio histories, this treatment of non-Englishlanguage radio breaks new ground in the study of both American mass media and immigrant culture. Yiddish radio directly addressed the everyday lives of Jewish immigrants, while providing them with invaluable guidance as they struggled to become American. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, radio created a virtual place where Jewish immigrants could listen to voices like theirs and affirm the sound of their community as it evolved, particularly in light of World War II and the years that followed.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Note on Romanization	p. xvii
Introduction: The Culture of Yiddish Radio	p. 1
From the Mainstream to the Margin, 1920-1929	p. 27
Americanization, Audience, Community, Consumers, 1925-1936	p. 54
Listening to Themselves, 1929-1936	p. 84
An Acoustic Community, 1936-1941	p. 128
At Home on the Air, 1941-1949	p. 174
Listening for Yiddish in Postwar America	p. 213
Conclusion: Diasporic Broadcasting	p. 223
Notes	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 271
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