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Ragtime Foreignness and 'The Other' Quotes

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Quote #10

There were commonly in America at this time titled European immigrants, mostly impoverished, who had come here years before hoping to marry their titles to the daughters of the nouveaux riches. So he invented a baronry for himself. It got him around in a Christian world. (34.3)

Tateh, having made it as a filmmaker, invents a title for himself so he won't be seen as a common Jewish immigrant.