Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning English socialist aesthetics

English socialist aesthetics

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Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning English socialist aestheticsJews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions in favor of texts including Ulysses, A Howl, Lady Chatterleys Lover, and Tropic of Cancer. Jewish literary critics have provided some of the most