Israel Baline, native of Byelorussia, wrote both the music and the utterly un-ironic lyrics to “God Bless America” under the name of Irving Berlin. One of the delicious ironies of 20th-century popular culture is the extent to which the images and sounds that defined the American Century sprang from the fertile imaginings of Jews only recently resident amid the amber waves of grain. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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