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The last night of Ballyhoo

by Alfred Uhry · 1997

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A bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta in 1939, on the eve of World War II and the opening night of Gone with the Wind, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo deals in a very personal way with being Jewish in the South, depicting the prejudices that existed between German-American Jews and "the other kind."

DramaJewish familiesMothers and daughtersAntisemitismAmerican drama (dramatic works by one author)
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