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Inventing the modern Yiddish stage :

0814335047

9780814335048

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Inventing the modern Yiddish stage :

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essays in drama, performance, and show business /

edited by Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry

Detroit, Mich. :

Wayne State University Press,

c2012

x, 385 p. :

ill. ;

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Joel Berkowitz, Barbara Henry -- Between two worlds: antitheatricality and the beginnings of modern Yiddish theatre / Jeremy Dauber -- The salon and the tavern: Yiddish folk poetry of the nineteenth century / Alyssa Quint -- Jacob Gordin in Russia: fact and fiction / Barbara Henry -- Translations of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta as iconic moments in Yiddish theatre / Seth L. Wolitz -- "Cosmopolitan" or "purely Jewish?": Zygmunt Turkow and the Warsaw Yiddish art theatre / Miroslawa M. Bulat -- From Boston to Mississippi on the Warsaw Yiddish stage / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- Patriotn and their stars: male youth culture in the galleries of the New York Yiddish theatre / Nina Warnke -- Liquor and leisure: the business of Yiddish Vaudeville / Judith Thissen -- "Gvald, Yidn, Buena Gente": Jevel Katz, Yiddish bard of the Rio de la Plata / Zachary M. Baker -- Reconstructing a Yiddish theatre score: Giacomo Minkowski and his music to Alexander; or, the crown prince of Jerusalem / Ronald Robboy -- Sex and scandal in the encyclopedia of the Yiddish theatre / Faith Jones -- Joy to the goy and happiness to the Jew: Communist and Jewish aspirations in a postwar Purimshpil / Annette Aronowicz -- No raisins and almonds in the land of Israel: a tale of Goldfaden Productions featuring four hotsmakhs, three kuni-lemls, two shulamits, and one messiah / Donny Inbar

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Judaism and literature

Theater, Yiddish

Yiddish drama-- History and criticism

Berkowitz, Joel,1965-

Henry, Barbara J.,1965-

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