Author Miriam Mora discusses her new book, Carrying a Big Schtick

Author Brunch Series with Miriam Eve Mora: ‘Carrying a Big Schtick….’

For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity.