Jewish theatre : a global view / edited by Edna Nahshon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nahshon, Edna.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 8.

IJS studies in Judaica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish theater--Congresses.

Jewish theater.

Theater, Yiddish--Poland--Congresses.

Theater, Yiddish.

Theater, Yiddish--Congresses.

Jewish theater--Europe, Western--Congresses.

Western Europe.

Poland.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Jewish theater

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Contents:

Introductory essay : what is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon

Ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin

Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy : Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry

Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen

Józio Grojseszyk : a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf

The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska

Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone

"The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi

Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon

Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer

Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger

On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff

Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi

Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot

Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem

Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa

Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.

Notes:

"The essays included in this volume were originally presented at an academic conference titled "Jewish theatre," sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies in June 2002 at University College London"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004173354

9004173358

OCLC:

312445887

Publisher Number:

99935207385