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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75389988 Title: You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother Author: Joyce Antler Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780195147872 0195147871 9780195341430 0195341430 OCLC:75389988

  
  

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You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother

Author:	Joyce Antler
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In You Never Call, You Never Write! Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture - the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the lives of her children." "Antler traces the odyssey of this compelling personality through decades of American culture. She reminds us of a time when Jewish mothers were admired for their tenacity and nurturance, as in the early-twentieth-century image of the "Yiddishe Mama," a sentimental figure popularized by entertainers such as George Jessel, Al Jolson, and Sophie Tucker, and especially Gertrude Berg, whose amazingly successful "Molly Goldberg" ruled American radio and television for over 25 years. Antler explains the transformation of this Jewish Mother into a "brassy-voiced, smothering, and shrewish" scourge (in Irving Howe's words), detailing many variations on this theme, from Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks to television shows such as The Nanny, Seinfeld, and Will and Grace. But she also uncovers a new counter-narrative, leading feminist scholars and stand-up comedians to see the Jewish Mother in positive terms. Continually revised and reinvented, the Jewish mother becomes in Antler's hands a unique lens through which to examine vital concerns of American Jews and the culture at large."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Jewish women. Mothers. Jewish women -- Humor. View all subjects
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