Only in America: Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer

by Richard Bernstein

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young Jolson dreamed of becoming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805243674
• ISBN13: 9780805243673
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.