TY - BOOK AU - Hecht,Stuart Joel TI - Transposing Broadway: Jews, assimilation, and the American musical T2 - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history SN - 9781349295036 AV - ML1711 .H34 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Musicals KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Jews KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Ethnic identity N1 - K_B; Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index; Introduction : Broadway as a cultural Ellis Island -- Hello, young lovers : assimilation and dramatic configurations -- The melting pot paradigm of Irving Berlin -- How to succeed -- Cinderellas -- Turns of the century : dreams of progress, dreams of loss -- Fiddler's children -- Epilogue : loveable monsters ER -