Dr. Rothman‘s book The Barber In Modern Jewish Culture: A Genre of People, Places, and Things, With Illustrations is
already out of in print.
Here’s Dr. Rothman on YouTube:
Back in 1988 I did a little bit of research on “barbers in literature” for Dr. Rothman. I really enjoyed his classes – his Eighteenth Century Lit starring Samuel Johnson, and his Nobel Prize Winners in Lit class starring (for me) Garcia Marquez
.
Back in the 80s it wasn’t uncommon to see Donald Barthelme, Rosellen Brown
, Ntozake Shange
, and Edward Hirsch
all walking around on campus. Those were the days of Homer Noodleman…