Christian-Jewish Intermarriage

1. A "melting pot marriage" is the sort of marriage celebrated in t he play Abie's Irish Rose, a marriage in which a Jew marries a Gentile, leading to a mixture of cultures. Such marriages serve the image of the melting pot well, and that image holds that people from different backgrounds come together in the American context and intermix, producing a hybrid American more in keeping with the image of the American born here than with either of the two foreign sources for husband and wife. The authors note how popular this work was in the 1920s and sees this as surprising, though one reason for its popularity was that there were pressures in American society bolstering this sort of marriage and because many in the audience may have been in such a m

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