Table of Contents

Introduction Illustrious Ancestors Clever Isaac Not Bad for Delancey Street “Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me” Crazy Quilt A Cosmic Scale Jumbo It Can’t Happen Here Let’s Play Fair Saving Kurt Schwarz We Will Never Die Abracadabra A Flag Is Born Uncaged Tiger Israel Museum Epilogue Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index

About the Author

MARK COHEN is the author of Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman and of two previous books. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, the Daily News, American Jewish History, Forward, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Judaism, History of Photography, the Journal of Jewish Studies, the Saul Bellow Journal, and Tablet Magazine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviews

"Cohen does a good job of presenting Rose's life as a 'mixed and rich and complex and confusing and thrilling experience of the American Jew.'"
-- "Choice"

"Mark Cohen believes that his biography shares the upbeat judgment of Billy Rose that is implicit in the title of [Saul] Bellow's book [The Bellarosa Connection]. 'Billy Rose, with all his flaws and pettiness and occasional brutality, is . . . bella rosa: 'beautiful rose.' This is a fine summation of Cohen's rightful claim of Broadway Billy Rose for the Jews."--Ruth Wisse "Jewish Review of Books"