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Messiahs of 1933 :

1592138748

9781592138746

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9781592138722

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Messiahs of 1933 :

[Book]

how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire /

Joel Schechter.

Philadelphia :

Temple University Press,

[2008].

©2008

1 online resource (vi, 295 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.

Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all -- Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises -- Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America -- The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage -- The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish -- Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper -- Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered -- Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler -- Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble" -- Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk -- Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists -- The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered -- Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.

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A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression.

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JSTOR

187904

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Messiahs of 1933.

1592138721

Jewish actors-- United States.

Satire, Yiddish-- United States-- History and criticism.

Theater, Yiddish-- United States-- History.

Yiddish drama-- United States-- History and criticism.

HISTORY-- General.

Jewish actors.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Theater-- General.

Satire, Yiddish.

Theater, Yiddish.

Yiddish drama.

United States.

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