Irving Berlin, Part 1

<p>The immeasurably famous Irving Berlin seems like the perfect example of a U.S. immigrant success story. But reality is complicated and imperfect, and so was Berlin’s music-filled life.</p> <p><strong>Research:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bergreen, Laurence. “Irving Berlin: This Is the Army.” Prologue. Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1</li> <li>Carlson, Olivia. “What’s White Christmas without Minstrelsy?” Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music. Student Blogs and Library Exhibit Companion. https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2021/10/25/whats-white-christmas-without-minstrelsy/</li> <li>CBS Sunday Morning. “American songsmith Irving Berlin.” Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9uq8z2k5E</li> <li>Greten, Paula Anne. “Irving Berlin.” American History. August 2006.</li> <li>Hamm, Charles. “Irving Berlin -- Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914.” Oxford University Press. Via New York Times. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hamm-berlin.html</li> <li>Hamm, Charles. “Alexander and His Band.” American Music , Spring, 1996, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1996). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052459</li> <li>Hyland, William G. “The Best Songwriter Of Them All.” Commentary. October 1990.</li> <li>"Irving Berlin." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Online, Gale, 2013. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2419200098/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&amp;sid=bookmark-GPS&amp;xid=be3b3028. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.</li> <li>Jewish Lives. “Irving Berlin.” Podcast. Episode 4. 11/18/2019.</li> <li>Jewish Virtual Library. “Irving Berlin.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irving-berlin</li> <li>Judaism Unbound. “Bonus Episode: Irving Berlin – Judah Cohen (American Jewish History #5).” Podcast. Episode 248, October 2 2019.</li> <li>Kaplan, James. “Irving Berlin: New York Genius.” Yale University Press. 2019.</li> <li>Kennedy Center. “This Land is Your Land: T