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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nahshon, Edna.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 8.

IJS studies in Judaica, 1570-1581 ; v. v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish theater--Congresses.

Jewish theater.

Theater, Yiddish--Poland--Congresses.

Theater, Yiddish.

Theater, Yiddish--Congresses.

Jewish theater--Europe, Western--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers for these questions, Jewish Theatre: A Global View , contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.

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

Jozio 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 Bayerdorfer

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.

ISBN:

1-282-60228-4

9786612602283

90-474-2681-9

OCLC:

593341996