Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning Piñatas hang from the trees

Piñatas hang from the trees

from the sacred to the secular

and the stories of Isaac Babel—a Jewish man

Weaving together narratives of various figures

” The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl

Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture by Josh Lambert Yiddish Learning Piñatas hang from the treesJews 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