Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West

by Jonathan L. Friedmann

Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish contributors have shaped the Western--once Hollywood's most popular genre--ever since the silent era, both onscreen and offscreen, and some filmmakers have sought to infuse the genre with a distinctly Jewish sensibility. In Chai Noon, Jonathan L. Friedmann applies some of the central questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299352102
• ISBN13: 9780299352103
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.