Yiddish theatre : new approaches / edited by Joel Berkowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berkowitz, Joel, 1965-

Series:

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater, Yiddish--Congresses.

Theater, Yiddish.

Yiddish drama--History and criticism--Congresses.

Yiddish drama.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Writing the History of the Yiddish Theatre / Joel Berkowitz 1

I. Purimshpil

1. The 'Low' Culture of the Purimshpil / Ahuva Belkin 29

II. Repertoire

2. Romanticism and the Yiddish Theatre / Nahma Sandrow 47

3. Jewish Plays on the Russian Stage: St Petersburg, 1905-1917 / Barbara Henry 61

4. The Text of Goldfaden's Di kishefmakherin and the Operetta Tradition / Paola Bertolone 77

5. Shulamis and Bar kokhba: Renewed Jewish Role Models in Goldfaden and Halkin / Seth L. Wolitz 87

III. Regional Centres

6. Yiddish Theatre in Vienna, 1880-1938 / Brigitte Dalinger 107

7. Stories in Song: The Melo-deklamatsyes of Joseph Markovitsh / David Mazower 119

8. From Goldfaden to Goldfaden in Cracow's Jewish Theatres / Miroslawa M. Bulat 139

IV. Censorship

9. 'Exit, Pursued by a Bear': Russian Administrators and the Ban on Yiddish Theatre in Imperial Russia / John Klier 159

10. The Censorship of Sholem Asch's Got fun nekome, London, 1946 / Leonard Prager 175

V. Criticism

11. The Child Who Wouldn't Grow Up: Yiddish Theatre and its Critics / Nina Warnke 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-255) and index.

ISBN:

1874774811

OCLC:

51553205