Book Meme:

Smokler on December 9, 2006

So I’ve been tagged twice in the Book Meme. Here goes…

1.Grab the book closest to you

Ok. I’m at my writing group so lucky I’ve got something in my laptop bag.

2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence

Done.

3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog

“‘Suddenly, Jewishness became virtually synonymous with Judaism, defying the fundamentally secular secular character of Jewish immigrant communal leadership within unions, also eclipsing the left-leaning political or fraternal movements and coorperative housing that largely dominated the thought of previous immigrant generations.”

4. Name the book and the author

From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture by Paul Buhle

5. Tag three people

Dave, Josh and JT.