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Jews and the making of modern German theatre / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in theatre history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Germany--History--19th century.
- Theater.
- Jews.
- Intellectual life.
- Jews in the performing arts.
- History.
- Germany.
- Theater--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jews in the performing arts--Germany--History.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin
- Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim
- How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich
- - Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg
- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel
- German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner
- Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx
- Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer
- Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin
- The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion
- Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman
- Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte
- The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781587298684
- 1587298686
- OCLC:
- 432653963
- Publisher Number:
- 99937780869
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