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Jewish drama and theatre : from rabbinical intolerance to secular liberalism / Eli Rozik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rozik, Eli.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish theater--History.
- Jewish theater.
- Jewish drama--History and criticism.
- Jewish drama.
- Theater, Yiddish--History.
- Theater, Yiddish.
- Yiddish drama--History and criticism.
- Yiddish drama.
- Theater--Israel--History.
- Theater.
- Theater--Religious aspects.
- Religion and drama.
- History.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction : dramatic and theatrical creativity
- Tangential Jewish drama. Jewish theatre and ritual origin
- The Book of Job as Greek tragedy
- Ezekiel's Exagoge
- The binding of Isaac in theatre
- Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina
- Felipe Godinez' The Queen Esther
- Leone de' Sommi's A comedy of betrothal
- Advent of Yiddish Theatre. Adoption of theatre despite ritual
- Sephardi roots of Jewish parody
- The nature of carnival
- The purim-shpil
- The purim-rabbi
- A tribute to Yiddish theatre
- The languages of the Jews and Jewish theatre
- The Jewish nature of Israeli theatre. Sacred narratives in secular contexts
- Actualization in the Israeli theatre
- Rina Yerushalmi's Jephthah's daughter
- Sisera's mother and the Trojan women
- Rina Yerushalmi's Woyzeck
- Nissim Aloni's The American princess
- Hanoch Levin's Sufferings of Job.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845195984
- 1845195981
- OCLC:
- 842316270
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